OBITUARY NOTICES OF FELLOWS DECEASED. 



FREDERICK LE GROS CLARK, F.R.S., F.R.C.S.Eng., who died on 

 the 19th July, 1892, after a brief illness, at the ripe age of 81, was 

 born on the 7th February, 1811, in Mincing Lane, the youngest of 

 nine children of a city merchant. His early years were spent in the 

 city. In 1822 he went to reside as a pupil with the Rev. Ford 

 Richardson, at Iron Acton, in Gloucestershire, where he remained 

 four years. Here he received a very excellent education. He had 

 always expressed a desire to become a Surgeon ; but his father, before 

 deciding, consulted his friend, Mr. Benjamin Travers, then the dis- 

 tinguished Senior Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, who allowed the 

 son to have the run of the hospital for a couple of months, at the 

 end of which time his father gave him the choice of entering his own 

 counting house or of being apprenticed to Mr. Travers. In February, 

 1827, at the age of 16, he was apprenticed, and at once began his 

 hospital career. He appears to have been an industrious and dis- 

 tinguished pupil, for in 1830 he obtained the Cheselden Medal, and in 

 the same year was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, 

 under Mr. Tyrrell. He spent the summer session of this year in 

 Dublin. In 1833 he passed his examination at the Royal College of 

 Surgeons. The summer session of that year he spent in Paris, that 

 of 1834 in Edinburgh, that of 1835 in Berlin ; and in 1836 he passed 

 three months at Gottingen. In 1837 he took rooms near the hospital 

 and started in practice. He continued working at the hospital, and 

 teaching anatomy ; and in 1842, when the Hospital Medical School 

 was remodelled, he was elected Lecturer on Descriptive and Surgical 

 Anatomy ; and in 1843, on Mr. Tyrrell's ^eath, he was appointed 

 Assistant Surgeon. He then removed to Finsbury Square. In 1847 

 he was elected Surgical Secretary to the Medico-Chirurgical Society, 

 and in the following year moved to Spring Gardens. In 1853 he was 

 appointed full Surgeon to the hospital ; and increasing engagements 

 compelled him to retire from the Chair of Anatomy in 1854, though 

 still retaining the lectures on Regional and Surgical Anatomy. In 

 1858 he removed to St. Thomas's Street, at the request of the 

 Governors, and in 1860 became Lecturer on Surgery, an appoint- 

 ment which he held down to his retirement from the hospital. Iii 

 1864 he was appointed Examiner in Surgery to the Royal College of 



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