Josiah Clerk, M.D. (1639โ1714) was an English physician, briefly president of the College of Physicians.[1]
Life
Clerk was matriculated as a pensioner of
Harveian oration in 1708, was consiliarius in 1707, 1709, 1710, 1711, and 1712, and was elected to the presidency, void by the death of Dr. Edward Browne
. On 13 September 1708, he was re-elected at the general election of officers on the 30th of the same month.
Clerk, who was old and ill, was unable to act as president. He resigned on 18 December, and
St. Olave Hart Street Church
, where my honoured mother and my children lye, if it may be done with conveniency.' By his wife Abigail, who survived him, he left a daughter Elizabeth, married to Richard Wilshaw. Clerk's portrait is at the college.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Clerk, Josiah". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885โ1900.