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Authorised form of nameWilks; Sir; Samuel (1824 - 1911)
Dates1824 - 1911
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCamberwell, London, England
Date of birth02 June 1824
Place of deathHampstead
Date of death08/11/1911
DatesAndPlacesBurial :
Hampstead
OccupationPhysician
Research fieldPathology
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1870
RelationshipsSon of Joseph Barbert Wilks, Cashier at East India House, Leadenhall Street
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA5706
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1870/16Wilks, Sir Samuel: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/004919Wilks, Sir Samuelnd
NLB/13/18Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Samuel Wilks, Fellow of the Royal Society28 May 1896
NLB/23/1/155Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Samuel Wilks, Fellow of the Royal Society2 October 1901
NLB/25/847Copy 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
IM/004918Wilks, Sir Samuel1999
NLB/16/53Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor T Clifford Allbutt, Fellow of the Royal Society21 January 1898
VF/39Portrait of Sir Samuel Wilks by Sir Leslie Ward01 October 1892
AP/39/12Paper, '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 Oldham1857-1903
AP/39/12/2Unpublished 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/63/2Unpublished paper, 'Is the diameter of the pupil of the eye an equivalent of the lights intensity?' by John Gorham1884
AP/63/2/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Is the diameter of the pupil of the eye an equivalent of the lights intensity?' by John Gorham1884
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