Career
He is believed to have been the first person to observe and almost certainly the first to describe what are now called Haversian canals and Sharpey"s fibres. He was born in Stambourne, Essex, the son of Henry Havers, Rector of Stambourne. He was educated at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge (admitted 1668) and studied medicine under Richard Morton.
He also studied in Utrecht, Netherlands and was awarded Doctor of Medicine in 1685.
He practiced medicine in London. He was particularly interested in osteology, the study of bones.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in November 1686. He died in Willingale, Essex in 1702 and was buried at Willingale Doe, Essex.
Havers, Clopton 1691 Osteologia nova, or some new Observations of the Bones, and the Parts belonging to them, with the manner of their Accretion and Nutrition.