Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 1st Baronet

Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke was a British surgeon and physician, born on 28 May 1782 and died on 7 September 1857, who became well known in London and Norfolk. He was the son of a surgeon, John Clarke of Chancery Lane, and the brother of the obstetrician John Clarke. He trained at St George's Hospital and the Hunterian School of Medicine, served as an army surgeon, and then, on his brother's advice, specialised in midwifery and the diseases of women and children. He lectured on those subjects from 1804 to 1821, was surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Lying-In Hospital, and published Observations on those Diseases of Women which are attended by Discharges in 1814 and 1821. As Royal Physician to Queen Adelaide he was made a baronet in 1831, and he helped found the Westminster Medical Society.