Clement Cruttwell

Clement Cruttwell (1743 – 5 August 1808) was an English surgeon, priest, cartographer, and compiler of religious works and gazetteers.

At age 15, on 10 March 1758, Cruttwell was apprenticed to William Mellish, a surgeon of Uxbridge, for seven years.

He commenced his career as a surgeon at Bath, where he published his ‘Advice to Lying-in Women’ in 1779.

He then began his ‘Concordance of the Parallel Texts of Scripture’ (1790), which he printed in his own house, and on its completion his health was so broken down that he went to the baths of Saint-Amand for a cure.

He was engaged on a second edition of this great work, which was to contain thirty thousand fresh articles, when he died suddenly while on the way to his native town, at Froxfield in Wiltshire, on 5 August 1808.