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E001200 - Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd ( - 1925)
Title:
Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd ( - 1925)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E001200
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-06-07
Description:
Obituary for Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd ( - 1925), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd
Date of Death:
6 June 1925
Place of Death:
London Hospital, London, UK
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Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 20th 1875

FRCS December 9th 1880

Prosector, Royal College of Surgeons

MB CM Aberdeen 1876

MD 1879
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The son of Samuel D Clippingdale, who practised in Colet Place, Commercial Road East. He received his medical education at the University of Aberdeen and at the London Hospital, where he was Surgical Scholar and House Physician. He was at one time a candidate for the Surgical Registrarship in competition with Sir Frederick Treves. He was for a considerable period Surgeon to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital, and was at one time President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and Vice-President of the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also Police Surgeon for Kensington, and came before the public in his official capacity in the sensational Kensington murder trial, when a jealous husband, an Army officer, shot his wife's lover, but was subsequently proved to be of unsound mind due to shell-shock. Clippingdale was a familiar and respected figure in London medical circles and in the College Library. He possessed much charm of manner, being sympathetic and courteous after the fashion of the old school. As a medical biographer and antiquarian he belonged to the small body of those who devote themselves, with very little hope of reward or recognition, to the history of the profession. As a biographer he went into minute detail, relying much upon pedigrees, inscriptions on tombstones, and wills. He was a diligent searcher among the registers at Kensal Green Cemetery, where numbers of medical men, including Fellows of the College, lie buried. Heraldry, particularly medical heraldry, especially interested him. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Addison, Mr Victor G Plarr bethought him of an idea which would at once interest and gratify this most charming modern representative of eighteenth-century amenities. He obtained leave, through Miss Nauen, the Secretary and Librarian to Lord Ilchester at Holland House, to be present with Dr Clippingdale in Addison's death-chamber at the same hour and minute when 'Mr Spectator' passed from this world. Addison died in the afternoon of June 17th, 1719, and late in the afternoon of June 17th, 1919, Dr Clippingdale and Mr Victor G. Plarr sat in the room in Holland House where the death occurred. Clippingdale had resided during his active years at 36 Holland Park Avenue, W, but after his retirement went to live at 17 Malvern Road, Hornsey, N. He died of enlarged prostate in the wards of the London Hospital on June 6th, 1925. Publications: "The Clay and Gravel Soils of London and the Relative Advisability of Dwelling upon them." - *Jour. Balneol. and Climat. Soc.*, 1902, vi, 14, 38, etc. "West London Rivers Extant and Extinct, and their Influence upon the Fertility and Salubrity of the Districts through which they Pass or Passed." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 1. "A Medical Roll of Honour - Physicians and Surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague," 8vo, London, 1909; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1909, Feb. 6th. "Medical Parliamentary Roll (1558-1909)," 8vo, London, 1910; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.* "Medical Baronets, 1645-1911," 8vo, London, 1912; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1912, May 25th. "The Crest of Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon. An Heraldic Tribute to Human Fecundity," illustrated; reprinted from *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1914, xix, 286. "Heraldry and Medicine," original proof-sheets with illustrations of article in the *Antiquary*, 1915, Nov-Dec. (A printed copy of this is all that represents the author in the Surgeon-General's Library.) "Medical Court Roll, Physicians and Surgeons and some Apothecaries, who have attended the Sovereigns of England from William I to George V, with a Medical Note on Harold"; MS, 2 vols, fol. The two foregoing books were specially presented to the Library by the author. To the *London Hospital Gazette* he contributed a series of very careful biographies of former members of the Staff of the London Hospital, of whom a dozen were Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. - *London Hosp. Gaz.*, xix, xx, xxii, 1912. In the College Scrap-Book is a portrait of Margaret Nicholson, who attempted to assassinate George III. This was presented by Clippingdale and is accompanied by one of his careful biographical notes. "Quackery in Hammersmith in the 18th Century." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 74.
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001200-E001299
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