Clark, SIR JAMES

Clark, SIR JAMES, physician, was born at Cullen, Banffshire, 14th December 1788. He took the degree of M.A. at King's College, Aberdeen, studied medicine at Edinburgh and London, and entered as a navy surgeon in 1809—a position he held until 1815. At Rome he practised eight years as a physician; but in 1826 he settled in London. On the accession of Queen Victoria, Clark, who for two years previously had acted as physician to the Duchess of Kent, was appointed physician in ordinary to Her Majesty, in 1838 being created a baronet. He was author of a work On the Influence of Climate in the Cure of Chronic Diseases (1829), and A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption (1835). He died June 29, 1870.