Henry Wilberforce-Clarke

Henry Wilberforce Clarke was the author of a critical translation of The Dīvān of Hafez, printed at his expense at the Central Press of the Government of India, Calcutta (1889-1891)

The work (1891) was presented as follows:

: The Dīvān: "written in the fourteenth century" : "by" : "Khwāja Shamsu-d-Dīn Muhammad-i-Hāfiz-i-Shīrāzī": "otherwise known as": "Lisānu-l-Ghaib and Tarjumānu-l-Asrār"."Translated for the first time out of the Persian into English prose, with critical and explanatory remarks, with an introductory preface, with a note on Sūfī,ism, and with a life of the author,"

:" by": Lieut.-Col. H. Wilberforce Clarke: "Royal (late Bengal) Engineers,": "Life-Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland; and Member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.": "Author of" "The Persian Manual";: "first translator (out of the Persian) of the" "Būstān-i-Sa'dī" (Saadi) "and of" "The Sikandar Nāma,-i-Nīzamī" (Nezami): Author of "Notes on Elephants"; "of" "The Sextant"; "of" "Longitude by Lunar Distance"; "and of" "The Transverse Strength of a Railway-Rail"

The book was dedicated to his uncle Henry M. Clarke, Bengal Civil Service (1826), winner of a gold medal for Persian at Haileybury,

Henry Wilberforce Clarke was the grandson of William Stanley Clarke, Director (1815-1842) and Chairman (1835-1836) of the East India Company.

In 1974 a facsimile edition of Clarke's translation was published by The Octagon Press LTD.