Clarke, Dr John

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2.3.1794 dr Clarke (talked of at Holcroft's with Ritson) / 5.9.1797 Clarke in the afternoon (when Wollstonecraft ill) / 12.2.1798 Fordyce's with Clarke, Carlisle, Johnson, Stewart

John Clarke DNB 1761-1815 physician and midwife. Friend of Matthew Baillie. Of Queen St, Golden Sq, St James voted Fox 1790. Married April 1789. will PCC 1815. 5.9.1797 this entry was made without the usual "calls" or "call on" but Fordyce was both a physician and a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft's and Clarke was a midwife of high reputation. The dinner at Fordyce's on 12.2.1798 then included three doctors who had attended on Mary Wollstonecraft. In my notes on Richard Johnson I suggested this Johnson may have been him because of the presence of "Walking" Stewart, but I now see it was more likely Joseph Johnson as another friend of Wollstonecraft's, particularly as "Walking" Stewart was probably in America in 1798 so this may have been another Stewart, if so wrongly coded in GD website. See Clarke for other entries which may have been Dr John Clarke

Edward Goodman Clarke DNB d.1811, physician. Apprenticed 1784 to Henry Cline at same time as Astley Cooper. Alcoholic

In DNB are also John Clarke 1744-1805 physician, Unitarian, but at Newcastle, and Joseph Clarke physician and midwife, but in Dublin. married 1796

Boyle's1792 Dr Clark 38 Argyle St / UBD 1791 Dr John Clerke Epsom FRCP / Dr Thos Clerke Bath LRCP