William Clark (5 April 1788 – 15 September 1869) was a British anatomist.

History

Clark was born in

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, a son of John Clark (died 1805).. After attending a school at

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, he matriculated at

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in 1804, graduating B.A. in 1808. He studied medicine in London, graduating M.D. in 1827. Clark served as Professor of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, from 1817 to 1866, during which time he was responsible for acquisition of an extensive museum of comparative anatomy and laid the foundations for the School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge University. He was elected Fellow of the

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in 1836. Clark was ordained in 1818. He was rector of

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, Yorkshire, 1826–1859, the duties being carried out by a curate. After suffering a stroke in 1863, he died at home in Cambridge in 1869.

Bibliography

*''Analysis of a Course of Lectures on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body'', Cambridge (1822) *''A Case of Human Monstrosity, with a Commentary'', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, iv, pp. 219–255 *''Report on Animal Physiology; comprising a Review of the Progress and Present State of Theory, and our Information respecting the Blood and the Powers that Circulate it.'' Report of the 4th meeting of the BAAS held at Edinburgh in 1834 (London) 1835 p. 95 *''Von Baer, Valentin, Wagner, Coste, Eschricht, &c on the Early Development of the Ovum'' British and Foreign Medical Review. p. 1 (1840) *Translated ''Handbook of Zoology'' 1856–1858 from the

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Jan van der Hoeven Jan van der Hoeven (9 February 1801 – 10 March 1868) was a Dutch zoologist. His most famous book is ''Handboek der Dierkunde'' (1827–1833), translated into German and English (by prof. Clark). He wrote as readily about crocodiles as about b ...

into both German and English (1802–1868). *''Catalogue of the Osteological Portion of the Specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge'' (1862)

Family

Clark married Mary Willis, daughter of Robert Darling Willis M.D. (1760–1821).

John Willis Clark John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian. Academic career Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis. Educated at Eton and Trinity ...

was their son.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, William 1788 births 1869 deaths English anatomists Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Professors of Anatomy (Cambridge)