Alfred Joseph Clark, 1885-1941

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Alfred Joseph Clark, who died in Edinburgh after a short illness on 30 July 1941, was born at Glastonbury, Somerset, on 19 August 1885. His family had been Quakers since the days of Fox. In 1898 he went to Bootham School, York, and after spending a year at University College, Bristol, he entered King’s College, Cambridge, in 1903 to read for the Natural Sciences Tripos as an antecedent to qualification in medicine. Here his industry and ability were quickly recognized by the award, at the end of his first year, of the Cooke Prize (‘given annually to an undergraduate in his first year who has deserved well by application to his studies and general orderly behaviour’) and of a College Exhibition; and in 1905 he became a Foundation Scholar of the College. After gaining a First Class in Part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos he wisely prolonged his study of physiology by reading for Part II: in this, too, he was placed in the First Class. Doubtless his enthusiasm and ability found in the flourishing Cambridge school an attractive and befitting environment, the experience of which influenced and directed his later career.

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