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SIR SAMUEL WILKS, at the time of his death, on November 8, the senior fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, was born at Camberwell on June 2, 1824. He was the second son of Joseph Barber Wilks, treasurer to the East India Company, who himself had many ancestors in the service of that company. He was educated at Aldenham. In 1840 he was apprenticed to a family doctor at Camberwell, Mr. Richard Prior, whose widow he subsequently married. He began to attend lectures at Guy's Hospital in 1841, and took the M.D. London in 1850. He earned many distinctions at the University. In 1856 he became a fellow of the College of Physicians, and assistant physician to Guy's Hospital, in 1867 full physician; in 1870 he obtained his F.R.S., and in 1897 his baronetcy. He was president of the Royal College of Physicians from 1896 to 1899, and he was a governor of Guy's Hospital.
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W., W. Sir Samuel Wilks, Bart., F.R.S. . Nature 88, 83 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088083a0
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