Born 8 May 1877, the fourth son of William Fairlie Clarke, FRCS 1863, and Caroline Selina Walker his wife. He was educated at Bedford School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was a natural science scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1898, and received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. After periods as casualty officer at the East London Children's Hospital and resident surgical officer at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he settled in practice at Horsham, where he was surgeon to the cottage hospital, and later moved to Dover. During the war of 1914-18 he was the only civilian surgeon at Dover, and for his services was made a permanent member of the consulting staff of the Royal Victoria Hospital. He moved in 1922 to Malvern, where he was appointed surgeon and later consulting medical officer to the hospital. He retired in 1936, but during the second world war acted as resident house surgeon at the Powick Emergency Hospital, near Worcester, 1940-41. Fairlie-Clarke married twice: (1) in 1907 Violet Lyell, and (2) in 1919 Gwendolen Balmer. He was survived by two sons, a third son having died before him, and two daughters of his first marriage, and one daughter of his second marriage. One son, George Allen Fairlie-Clarke, FRCS, is in practice at Newbury; a rare case of three members of one family in direct descent holding the Fellowship one after the other. Fairlie-Clarke died at The Oaks, Graham Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, 16 February 1948, after a very short illness, aged 70, and was buried Malvern Wells cemetery after a funeral service at Malvern Priory. Publications:- Treatment of crushed hands. *Practitioner*, 1905, 75, 816. Goitre operations under local anaesthesia. *Brit med J*. 1907, 1, 1534. Operative technique of a general practitioner. *Practitioner*, 1909, 82, 554. Blood films in everyday practice. *Practitioner*, 1929, 122, 315.