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Mar 31, 1854 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 12 Nov 1932 (aged 78)
British engineer
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About Dugald Clerk
- Sir Dugald Clerk (sometimes written as Dugald Clark) KBE, LLD FRS (1854, Glasgow – 1932, Ewhurst, Surrey) was a Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878 and patented it in England in 1881.
- He was a graduate of Anderson's University in Glasgow (now the University of Strathclyde), and Yorkshire College, Leeds (now the University of Leeds).
- He formed the intellectual property firm with George Croydon Marks, called Marks & Clerk.
- He was knighted on 24 August 1917.
