Henry Radcliffe Crocker

Henry Radcliffe Crocker, MD, FRCP was an English dermatologist. Originally from Hove in Sussex, Crocker started his working life as an apprentice to a general practitioner, before going to London to attend the University College Hospital medical school. Working as a resident medical officer with William Tilbury Fox, Crocker began a lifelong career in dermatology. With his 1888 book Diseases of the Skin their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, he became known as a leading figure of dermatology.

Crocker was born in 1846 in Hove, Sussex to Henry and Maria Crocker. His father was a chemist, a career that Crocker at first sought to take up. At 16, he left his private school in Brighton to take up an apprenticeship with a general practitioner. In 1870 he became a student at University College Hospital medical school in London. He worked parttime as a drug dispenser in Sloane Street. As an undergraduate student, Crocker won gold medals in materia medica, clinical medicine and forensic medicine, as well as a university scholarship. Crocker was generally known by his middle name, Radcliffe, and throughout his career this was sometimes mistaken as the first part of his surname.

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