Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet

Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet FRS FRCPE (28 October 1826 – 6 November 1893), was a Scottish physician and pathologist.

But symptoms of tuberculosis brought his academic life to a close and, in the hope that the sea might benefit his health, he joined the medical department of the Royal Navy in 1848.

Huxley was one of his colleagues and in 1853 he was the successful candidate for the newly instituted post of curator to the museum of the London Hospital.

The great number of persons who passed through his consulting-room every morning rendered it inevitable that to a large extent his advice should become stereotyped and his prescriptions often reduced to mere stock formulae, but in really serious cases he was not to be surpassed in the skill and carefulness of his diagnosis and in his attention to detail.

In spite of the claims of his practice he found time to produce a good many books, all written in the precise and polished style on which he used to pride himself.