Born on July 12th, 1850, at Saffron Walden, the third son of the Rev Ralph Clutton, BD, vicar of the parish. He was educated at Marlborough College from 1864-1866, but left on account of ill health. He entered Clare College, Cambridge, in 1869 and graduated BA in 1873, proceeding to MA and MB in 1879, and to Master in Surgery in 1897. He entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1872 and was appointed Resident Assistant Surgeon in 1876, Assistant Surgeon in 1878, and full Surgeon in 1891. Whilst he was Assistant Surgeon he had charge of the Department for Diseases of the Ear. He was Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, from 1887-1893. He was also Consulting Surgeon at Osborne, and Treasurer of the Medical Sickness, Annuity and Life Assurance Society, and of the Convalescent Homes Association. He was elected a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1902 and served until 1907; during this time he represented the College on the Senate of the University of London and on the Executive Committee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He was the last President of the Clinical Society of London in 1905 before it was absorbed to form a Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Clutton married in 1896 Margaret Alice, third daughter of Canon Young, Rector of Whitnash, Warwickshire, and left one daughter. He died at his house, 2 Portland Place, London, after a long illness, on November 9th, 1909, and was buried in the Brompton Cemetery. Clutton was imbued with the spirit which based surgery on pathology rather than on anatomy. Diseases of the bones and joints especially interested him, and he was one of the earliest surgeons to recognize the importance of early and active treatment of middle-ear disease. His power as a clinical teacher was of a very high order. Not only had he a wide knowledge of surgical literature, but his practical and original mind lent to his teaching a rare vivacity. He disregarded tradition unless it justified itself on its merits. He was dogged throughout life by ill health, which sometimes laid him aside for long periods. Publications: Clutton did not write much, though he published an important paper in the *Lancet* (1886, i, 516) about a little-known symmetrical disease of the joints in children to which the name 'Clutton's joints' was afterwards given. "Diseases of the Bones" in Treves' *System of Surgery*, 1895. Co-editor of the *St Thomas's Hosp. Rep.*, 1895.