Clerk
one who is employed in an office, store, etc., subject to a higher authority; a secretary, as, the Clerk of the House of Representatives or Senate; Clerks of the various courts, etc. In CLERK-MAXWELL whose business used to be to lead the responses in the church services and to perform other duties connected with the parish; a parish Clerk.
CLERK - MAXWELL, JAMES, a Scotch physicist; born in Edinburgh, Nov. 13, 1831. He was a Professor of Natural Philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1856-1860; of Physics and Astronomy in King's College, London, in 1860-1865; and of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge in 1871.
Among his most important works are: "Essay on the Stability of Motion of Saturn's Rings," "Theory of Heat," "Electricity and Magnetism," and "Matter and Motion." He died Nov. 5, 1879.