Wilfrid Le Gros Clark

Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark (5 June 1895 – 28 June 1971)[2] was a British anatomist, surgeon, primatologist and palaeoanthropologist, today best remembered for his contribution to the study of human evolution.

He caught diphtheria and was sent back to England to recover, following which he spent the remainder of the war as a medical officer at '‘No.

[4] In 1953, Le Gros Clark was one of three men (the others being Joseph Weiner and Kenneth Oakley) who proved that the Piltdown Man was a forgery.

[8] Papers relating to Le Gros Clark, his grandfather the surgeon Frederick Le Gros Clark and his brother Cyril Le Gros Clark (former Chief Secretary of Sarawak, who was murdered by the Japanese in 1945 after a period of detention at Batu Lintang camp in Borneo) are held at the Bodleian Library (Special Collections and Western Manuscripts) at Oxford University.

[9] During his career Le Gros Clark published numerous papers on human evolution and palaeontology,[10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] and an autobiography.