William James Clement (1802 – 29 August 1870) was an English surgeon and a Liberal Party politician who was active in local government and sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1870.
He authored Observations in Surgery and Pathology and in 1834 was awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal of the Medical Society of London.
[1] In writing An Account of Two Cases of Intestinal Obstruction, in which the operation for the formation of an artificial anus was performed; one in the ascending, the other in the descending colon he claimed to have been the first surgeon in Great Britain who successfully opened the ascending colon for intestinal obstruction.
[1] In 1873 a memorial drinking fountain and obelisk was erected to his memory in the forecourt of Shrewsbury railway station where it stood until 1897 when it was moved to The Quarry park in the Shrewsbury town centre.
[5] In the parish church of Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, Clement is portrayed in the west window of the chancel, which is a memorial to Dr Joseph Bowles, its vicar until the latter's death in 1879.