| Authorised form of name | Havers; Clopton (1657 - 1702); physician and anatomist |
| Dates | 1657 - 1702 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Stambourne, Essex, England, Europe |
| Date of birth | 24 February 1657 |
| Place of death | Willingale, Essex, England, Europe |
| Date of death | 15 April 1702 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Willingale Doe, Essex, England, Europe |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Osteology |
| Activity | Education:
St Catharine's College, Cambridge (admitted 1668); studied medicine under Richard Morton; Utrecht (MD 1685)
Career:
Practised in London; first Gale anatomy lecturer, later called the Arris and Gale Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons (1694)
Memberships:
Extra-licenciate Royal College of Physicians (1684); Licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians (1687) |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/11/1686 |
| Age at election | 29 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council 1689, 1691, 1696 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Occasional correspondent on medical matters (1690s);
Had a paper published in the 'Philosophical Transactions' (1699) |
| Relationships | Parents: Rev Henry Havers
Married: Dorcas Fuller
Children: Mary Havers |
| PublishedWorks | RCN: 43358 |
| OtherInfo | His main work 'Osteologia nova', which described the minute structure of the bone, was the first of its kind in the European medical world. It features what is considered the first description of the small bone channels allowing blood circulation through them; these became known as Haversian canals. He was also responsible for the English publication of Remmelin's anatomical work in 1695. |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; ODNB
Hughes, S. 1977. 'The distribution of 99mTc-EHDP in the tissues of the dog and its application in the assessment of fracture healing', in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, vol. 59(4), pp. 322-327
Notes:
Source of birth date is the civil register of the parish of Stambourne, Essex. In DSB his birth date is put as approximately 1655; it is from DSB that the birth and death places are taken, although above the birth place has been matched with a date from a separate source, that just mentioned. Burial place from DNB. Council dates from Hunter. |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/264888804 |
| Code | NA5663 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| LBO/11A/39 | Copy letter from Thomas Fairfax, Hadleigh, to Clopton Havers | 10 July 1688 |
| MS/390/94 | Bond of Clopton Havers to the Treasurer of the Royal Society | 15 December 1686 |
| CLP/12i/36 | Paper, 'A post-mortem examination' by [Clopton] Havers | [1692] |
| CLP/12i/43 | Papers, post-mortem of a man who died of consumption and of a woman who died of dropsy [oedema] by Dr [Clopton] Havers | 15 May 1693 |
| CLP/22i/37 | Paper, Account of 'Osteologia nova; or, Some new observations of the bones, and the parts belonging to them, with the manner of their accretion, and nutrition, communicated to the Royal Society in several discourses' by Dr [Clopton] Havers | [1691] |