Clark, Frederick Le Gros (1811-1892)

10 letters from Clark to Thomas Madden Stone, librarian, Royal College of Surgeon (1868 to 1883; 2 letters undated);

1 letter from Clark to James Shuter F.R.C.S. about Clark's subscription to the "Stone Memorial."

This material was formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department Autograph Letter sequence.

7 February 1868-23 November 1883

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Purchased from: Sotheby's, London, November 1931 (acc.75331); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection.

Frederick Le Gros Clark was a surgeon, born in London in 1811. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Travers at St Thomas' Hospital, won the Cheselden Medal in 1830, and was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Dublin. In 1839 he become Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, and in 1843 Assistant Surgeon, at St Thomas' Hospital. In 1858 he became full Surgeon and was appointed to the Chair of Surgery. Clark retired from this post in 1873.

Clark was deeply involved with the College of Surgeons and was one of the original 300 Fellows. He became a Member in 1833, a Fellow in 1843, was Member of Council from 1864-1879, Member of the Court of Examiners from 1870-1880, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1873, Vice-President in 1872 and 1873, and President in 1874. He was Hunterian Orator in 1875, held the Arris and Gale Lectureship in 1867-1868, and the Hunterian Professorship of Surgery and Pathology in 1868-1869.

Clark was also a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1872 and Surgical Secretary of the Medico-Chirurgical Society.

Besides his position at St Thomas', Clark held various other posts such as Surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital and the London Female Penitentiary, Consulting Surgeon to the Surrey County Hospital and to the Great Northern Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the South-Eastern line.

This information is taken from the Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online where a full account of Clark's life and work can be found.