Clinton Thomas Dent

Clinton Thomas Dent (1850 to 1912) was an English surgeon, author and mountaineer. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, a senior surgeon at the St George's Hospital medical school in London, consulting surgeon at the Belgrave Hospital for Children and, from 1904, chief surgeon of the Metropolitan Police. His writing covered post-surgical insanity and heart surgery, and he went to the Transvaal War as a correspondent for the British Medical Journal, reporting on the wounded. He also had a special interest in dermatology. Outside medicine he was one of the foremost British alpinists of the silver age, making the first ascent of the Grande Aiguille du Dru in 1878, and he served as president of the Alpine Club from 1886 to 1889.