Education
He was educated at Saint Paul"s School and Oxford.
He was educated at Saint Paul"s School and Oxford.
He was tutor to Thomas More"s children, and became President of the College of Physicians. In 1519 we find Clement at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, when Cardinal Wolsey constituted him the Rhetoric Reader in the university. Later he became professor of Greek there.
Applying himself to the study of medicine, he was admitted a Fellow of the College of Physicians (1 February 1528), and was chosen by Henry VIII to attend Wolsey when the latter was dangerously ill at Esher (1529).
He was consiliarius of the college from 1529 to 1531, in 1547, and again from 1556 to 1558. He held the office of president in 1544, and that of censor in 1555.
He returned to England in Mary Tudor"s reign and practised his profession in Essex, but fled abroad again when Elizabeth of England came to the throne. Mechlin was his last place of exile.
He lies buried in the cathedral church of Saint Rumbold in that city.