Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet
Early life and education
He was born in
Career
In 1849 he became pathologist to the
In 1854, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1858 a fellow, and then went in succession through all the offices of honour the college has to offer, ending in 1888 with the presidency, which he continued to hold until his death. From the time of his selection as assistant physician to the London Hospital, his fame rapidly grew until he became a fashionable doctor with one of the largest practices in London, counting among his patients some of the most distinguished men of the day. The great number of persons who passed through his consulting-room every morning rendered it inevitable that to a large extent his advice should become stereotyped and his prescriptions often reduced to mere stock formulae, but in really serious cases he was not to be surpassed in the skill and carefulness of his diagnosis and in his attention to detail.[2]
Honours
He delivered the
He was created a baronet in 1883 in recognition of his services to medical science.[4] He was elected the same year President of the Clinical Society of London.[5]
In June 1885 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[6]
He was elected President of the
Writing
In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to produce a good many books, all written in the precise and polished style on which he used to pride himself. Doubtless owing largely to personal reasons, lung diseases and especially
Personal life
In 1891, his daughter Mary Kane married zoologist Oldfield Thomas.[7]
Death
He died in London, after a paralytic stroke, and was buried at Essenden, near his country house at Hatfield, Hertfordshire.
References
- ^ , retrieved 24 September 2021
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Clark, Sir Andrew". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 441. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- PMC 2422455.
- ^ "No. 25257". The London Gazette. 7 August 1883. p. 3916.
- ^ "Transactions of the Clinical Society of London Volume 18 1886". Clinical Society. Retrieved 23 October 2012. archive.org
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 2 January 2011.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Between Science and Empire: Oldfield Thomas and Anglo-American Zoology". Smithsonian Institution Archives. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
External links
- "SIR ANDREW CLARK (1826-1893) (Obituary Notice, November 7, 1893)". Eminent Persons: Biographies reprinted from The Times. Vol. VI (1893-1894). London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. 1897. pp. 64-67. Retrieved 6 March 2019 – via Internet Archive.
- AIM25 Archives in London