Hugh Anthony Clegg

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FRCP (19 June 1900 – 6 July 1983) was a British medical doctor. He was editor of the '' British Medical Journal'' from 1947 to 1965. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the British Medical Association in 1966 and was appointed a

in the same year.

Early life

Born in St Ives, then in

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, Clegg was the son of the Rev. John Clegg and Gertrude Wilson. His father, a clergyman and schoolmaster who became the head of

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in East Anglia, taught him classical languages, and Clegg gained scholarships at

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and

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.Hugh Anthony Clegg
obituary at rcplondon.ac.uk, accessed 13 July 2016 He had two older brothers, Arnold (born 1896) and John (born 1898). In 1901, the family moved to Lowestoft, where his younger sisters, Mary, Margaret, and Veronica, and his brother Bernard were all born.

Career

In 1931 Clegg joined the staff of the ''British Medical Journal.'' He was handed assistant editorship of the journal 3 years later. Clegg became editor of the journal in 1947, and continued in his post until 1965. A 1947 ''Nature'' article on his work at the ''BMJ'' said, "Dr. Clegg brings to his task a vigour of character, a broad outlook and an experience of medical journalism which make it certain that the great traditions of the ''British Medical Journal'' will be maintained." In 1990, epidemiologist Austin Bradord Hill wrote an autobiographical piece in the ''BMJ'' about his friendship with Clegg, calling him a 'joy to work with'. In 1943 Clegg wrote a pamphlet for the general public, ''How to keep well in Wartime,'' published by the Ministry of Information. One of the few surviving photographs of Clegg was taken by

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for the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Personal life

In 1932 he married Kira von Engelhardt, Baroness von Smolensk, daughter of a

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, Arthur Engelhardt, Baron von Smolensk. Their son was businessman Nicholas P. Clegg, the father of politician

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, who from 2010 to 2015 was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

References

;Notes ;Sources * Lock, Stephen (n.d.).
Clegg, Hugh Anthony (1900–1983), journal editor
, in

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Online, , accessed 4 May 2014.

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Clegg, Hugh Anthony 1900 births 1983 deaths 20th-century British medical doctors Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians People educated at Westminster School, London People from St Ives, Cambridgeshire Medical journal editors