William Clift
1775–1849
Naturalist. Curator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1793–1842. In 1835, Clift’s daughter Caroline married Richard Owen, who succeeded Clift as curator in 1844. FRS 1823.
Sources
Dobson 1954, p. 103
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ODNB
Bibliography
Dobson, Jessie. 1954. William Clift. London: William Heinemann medical books.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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