Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet
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Sir James Clark, Bt., KCB |
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14 December 1788 Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland |
| Died | 29 June 1870 (aged 81) Bagshot Park, Surrey, England |
Sir James Clark, 1st Baronet, KCB (14 December 1788 – 29 June 1870) was a British physician who was Physician-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1860.
He was born in Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland, and was educated at Fordyce school. He studied at Aberdeen University, where he took an arts degree with the intention of studying law, and graduated with an M.A., before discovering a preference for medicine. He then went to Edinburgh University, and in 1809 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
He then entered the medical service of the Royal Navy. He served at the Royal Hospital Haslar, in Hampshire, until July 1810, when he was appointed assistant-surgeon aboard HMS Thistle. After the ship was wrecked in 1811 south of Sandy Hook in New Jersey, he returned to Great Britain, where he was promoted to the rank of surgeon, and served successively on the HMS Colobrée, which was also wrecked, as well as on the Chesapeake and Maidstone.
Following the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, he continued his studies in Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1817 with an MD. In 1818, he travelled to the south of France and Switzerland with a gentleman suffering from phthisis (tuberculosis). He began collecting meteorological and other data, and noted the effects of changes in climate on the disease.
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