Cyril Clarke
Sir Cyril Clarke | |
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Gonville and Caius College and Guy's Hospital | |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of Medicine and consultant physician |
| Known for | Pioneering work on prevention of Rh disease,
and Liverpool University |
Sir Cyril Astley Clarke,
Biography
Cyril Clarke was born on 22 August 1907 in Leicester, England and received his school education at
Second World War he worked as a medical specialist in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. After the war Clarke worked as a registrar at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and then as Consultant Physician at the United Liverpool Hospitals. In 1963 he was appointed Director of the Nuffield Unit of Medical Genetics based at the University of Liverpool and two years later was made Professor of Medicine. He held these posts until his retirement in 1972. In retirement he served as President of the Royal College of Physicians (1972–1977)[4]
Clarke helped to develop the technique of giving Rh-negative women inter-muscular injections of anti-RhD
preventive medicine
in the second half of the 20th century.
Clarke answered an advert in the Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society for
pupae that had been placed by Philip Sheppard. They met and began working together in their common interest of lepidoptery. From 1959 they started running a moth trap in Caldy Common near West Kirby, Wirral, England. They studied the peppered moth, the scarlet tiger moth and swallowtail butterfly. They published papers on the genetics of Lepidoptera and also on Rh disease
. Clarke continued research in his retirement and in 1988 he rediscovered a scarlet tiger moth colony on the Wirral Way, West Kirby, that had been started in 1961 by Philip Sheppard. The colony was useful for study of the genetics of changes in populations.
He married Frieda (or Féo) in 1934. Lady Clarke died in 1998. Cyril Clarke died in 2000. They had three sons, one of whom is a consultant neurologist.[3]
Career and awards
- Second World War – Medic in Royal NavyVolunteer Reserve
- 1947 to 1958 – Part-time Clinical Lecturer at Liverpool University, England.
- 1958 to 1965 – Reader at Liverpool University, England.
- 1965 to 1972 – Professor of Medicine at Liverpool University, England. Later, Honorary Nuffield Research Fellow, Department of Genetics and Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Liverpool. Director, Research Unit, Royal College of Physicians of London.
- 1967 – Lumleian lecture to Royal College of Physicians on Prevention of Rh-Haemolytic Disease[5]
Awards and accolades
- 1969 – Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 19 March 1970 – Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
- 1972 to 1977 – President of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
- 1974 – Knighted
- 1977 – Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1980 – antibodies in the causation of Rh diseaseand the prevention of Rh disease.
- 1981 – Linnean Medal from the Linnean Society of London.
- 1990 – haemolytic disease of the newborn.
- 1992 – Honorary Degree given by the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.
Bibliography
- Professor Sir Cyril (A.) Clarke (1987), Human Genetics and Medicine (3rd ed.), London: Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-7131-2944-1
See also
References
- S2CID 28010599.
- PMC 1734863.
- ^ a b c "Sir Cyril Astley Clarke". Munks Roll – Lives of the Fellows. XI. Royal College of Physicians: Royal College of Physicians: 112. 21 August 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Clarke, Sir Cyril Astley, 1907-2000. Knight. Clinical geneticist". National Archives. Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 3 August 2010.
- PMID 4167367.
Bibliography
- Obituary on Liverpool University website – includes a photograph
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- 1980 Lasker award to Prof Cyril Clarke
- RCP Presidents
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