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Born: 1788
Died: 1870
Title: Sir
he began his professional life as a Writer to the Signet (lawyer), but soon turned to med, his first post being that of assistant surgeon in the Navy; moved to London in 1828 and soon became a fashionable phys; quiet but powerful among the younger generation of London and provincial medical men; also active in medical and university politics; intimate of A. COMBE who dedicated his Treatise on Infancy to him, and of G. COMBE whom Clark arranged to conduct head readings of the royal family; M ETHNOL SOC; close friend and memorialist of John CONOLLY; a member, with H. H. HOLM and others of an exclusive Phren Soc, established in London in 1832. (DNB; Whitfield, A207)
| Identifier | 218. |
|---|---|
| Type | Person |
| Source | Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989) |
| PDF page | 62 |
| Printed page | 57 |
| Database ID | 540 |
218. CLARK, Sir James (1788-1870) principal phys to Queen Victoria from 1838; MD Edin 1817; born in Banffshire, he began his professional life as a Writer to the Signet (lawyer), but soon turned to med, his first post being that of assistant surgeon in the Navy; moved to London in 1828 and soon became a fashionable phys; quiet but powerful among the younger generation of London and provincial medical men; also active in medical and university politics; intimate of A. COMBE who dedicated his Treatise on Infancy to him, and of G. COMBE whom Clark arranged to conduct head readings of the royal family; M ETHNOL SOC; close friend and memorialist of John CONOLLY; a member, with H. H. HOLM and others of an exclusive Phren Soc, established in London in 1832. (DNB; Whitfield, A207)