Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet Doctor of Medicine Lambeth Honorary Data Control Language Oxfordshire Honorary Master of Arts Cantab Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons Federal Reserve System Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians was a British surgeon.
Background
A notable surgeon and physician, widely respected in London and Norfolk, he was the son of a surgeon, John Clarke of Chancery Lane, London, and brother of a well-known obstetrician, John Clarke (1758–1815). He was the son of John Clarke and Biddy Mansfield. He married Mary Anna Squire, daughter of Wright Thomas Squire, on 17 January 1806.
Career
Educated at Saint Paul’s School, London. He received his medical training at Street George’s Hospital and the Hunterian School of Medicine. He graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (Doctor of Medicine) from Lambeth in 1827.
Having qualified, he spent two years as assistant surgeon in the Hertfordshire Militia.
He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (Doctor of Laws) from Oxford in 1845, as well as an Honorary Master of Arts from Cambridge in 1842. He was invested as a Fellow, Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 1825.
In 1836 he was invested as a Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians). Sir Charles was Royal Physician to Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV. As a result he was created a baronet, of Dunham Lodge, in the County of Norfolk in the United Kingdom on 30 September 1831.
In 1814 and 1821 he published, in two parts, his only work of note, "Observations on those Diseases of Women which are attended by Discharges." Between the years 1804 and 1821, he delivered regular courses of lectures on these subjects.
He was surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital until about 1821. He co-founded the Westminster Medical Society.