| Authorised form of name | Wilks; Sir; Samuel (1824 - 1911) |
| Dates | 1824 - 1911 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Camberwell, London, England |
| Date of birth | 02 June 1824 |
| Place of death | Hampstead |
| Date of death | 08/11/1911 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial :
Hampstead |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Pathology |
| Activity | Education:
University College School; MB (1848, London), MD (1850)
Career:
Apprenticed to a doctor; attended Guy's Hospital, London; Assistant Physician, Guy's Hospital (1856); Physician. Guy's Hospital (1867); Physician to the Duke and Duchess of Connaught (1879); practised in St Thomas's Street, Borough, and then in Grosvenor Street; retired to Hampstead
Memberships:
MRCS (1847); MRCP (1851); FRCP
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1870 |
| Relationships | Son of Joseph Barbert Wilks, Cashier at East India House, Leadenhall Street |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Code | NA5706 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1870/16 | Wilks, Sir Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/004919 | Wilks, Sir Samuel | nd |
| NLB/13/18 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Samuel Wilks, Fellow of the Royal Society | 28 May 1896 |
| NLB/23/1/155 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Samuel Wilks, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 October 1901 |
| NLB/25/847 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Samuel Wilks, Fellow of the Royal Society, 8 Prince Arthur Road, Hampstead, N.W. | 10 January 1903 |
| NLB/16/53 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor T Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society | 21 January 1898 |
| VF/39 | Portrait of Sir Samuel Wilks by Sir Leslie Ward | 01 October 1892 |
| AP/39/12 | Paper, 'History of two cases of hernia of the ovaries, in one of which there was a periodical enlargement of one or other of these organs' by Henry Oldham | 1857-1903 |
| AP/39/12/2 | Unpublished letter, regarding 'History of two cases of hernia of the ovaries, in one of which there was a periodical enlargement of one or other of these organs' from Samuel Wilks to the Librarian of the Royal Society [Robert William Frederick Harrison] | 9 January 1903 |
| AP/63/2 | Unpublished paper, 'Is the diameter of the pupil of the eye an equivalent of the lights intensity?' by John Gorham | 1884 |
| AP/63/2/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'Is the diameter of the pupil of the eye an equivalent of the lights intensity?' by John Gorham | 1884 |
| MC/23/482 | Letter from Samuel Wilks, 8 Prince Arthur Road, Hampstead, NW, to Sir Archibald Geikie, [Royal Society] | 11 November 1908 |