| Authorised form of name | Clark; Sir; James (1788 - 1870); physician |
| Dates | 1788 - 1870 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 14 December 1788 |
| Place of death | Bagshot Park, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 29 June 1870 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Buried: Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, Uited Kingdom |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Activity | Education:
Aberdeen University; MD ( Edinburgh, 1817); Hon MA (King's College, Aberdeen, 1848)
Career:
Worked in a lawyer's office, then studied medicine at Edinburgh; Surgeon, Royal Navy (1809); trained at at Haslar Hospital; joined the armed schooner Thistle as assistant surgeon; survived the wreck of this ship on the coast of New Jersey (1811) and promoted to full surgeon, but suffered the same misfortune again on his next vessel, La Colobri, which was also wrecked, Jamaica (1813); held a practice in Rome and lived near the piazza di Spagna (1819); moved to London (1826); visited the spa towns and universities of Germany acting as physician to Prince Leopold (1790–1865); served on the senate of the University of London (1838-1865); served as a member of the General Medical Council (1858-1860); retired from practice (1860); suffered an attack of typhoid fever in 1827 which he never recorvered from and suffered a severe bout of bronchitis which debilitated him (1868); suffered gastric bleeding and died peacefully at his home.
Honours:
Bt 1837; KCB 1866
Memberships:
MRCS Edinburgh (1807); LRCP
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 09/06/1832 |
| Age at election | 44 |
| Proposer | William Richard Hamilton |
| William George Maton |
| Benjn Travers |
| Casil Hall |
| Herbert Mayo |
| Charles Lyell |
| Charles Mansfield Clarke |
| Thomas Bell |
| James McGrigor |
| M I Brunel |
| Astley Cooper |
| Samuel Daniel Broughton |
| Charles Daubeny |
| David Barry |
| William Russell |
| Benjamin Guy Babington |
| Leonard Horner |
| Relationships | Parents: David Clark (1751–1836), butler to the earl of Findlater, and Isabella Scott (1756–1812), daughter of John Scott of Glassaugh.
Spouse: Barbara Stephen (d. 1862).
Children: John Forbes Clark. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 33338
RCN 33333 |
| OtherInfo | Studied effects of climate on consumption and collected meteorological and other data with the view of ascertaining their influence on that and other diseases.
His major work, A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption, concentrated on the preventive aspects of infectious tuberculosis and was aimed at the general public.
He was interested in phrenology and in 1832 joined a phrenological society in London. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1870-1871 vol 19 pp xiii-xix |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/54902370 |
| Code | NA7543 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1832/18 | Clark, Sir James: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MC/6/125 | Letter from Ja [James] Clark, Bagshot Park, Surrey, to [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 8 February 1861 |
| MC/6/74 | Letter from Henry Cole, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, to Sir James Clark | 28 April 1860 |
| MS/426/691 | Copy letter from W [William] Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Henry Cole Esq | 12 May 1860 |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| PT/37/4 | Paper, 'Researches regarding the molecular constitution of the volatile organic bases' by A W [August Wilhelm von] Hofmann | [1849] |
| AP/32/1 | Unpublished paper, 'On the physiology and pathology of phosphate and oxalate of lime, and their relation to the formation of cells' by William Beneke | 1850 |
| AP/32/1/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'On the physiology and pathology of phosphate and oxalate of lime, and their relation to the formation of cells' by William Beneke | 1850 |