He was the eighth child and fourth surviving son of East India agent and merchant Thomas Dent (c.1797-?) and his wife Sabine Ellen Roberts (c.1813-1881), who had married in 1837 at St George's Hanover Square in London. In 1870 Clinton's elder sister Sabine married a son of Richard Mayne, part of the first pair of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police and later its first sole Commissioner.
Clinton grew up in his parents' home on Hyde Park Gardens (appearing there in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses) and attended Eton College. He was then admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 11 June 1868, matriculating in Michaelmas term 1869 and gaining his BA in 1873. He went on expeditions to the Caucasus in 1866, 1888, 1889 and 1895 and also became a noted Alpine climber, the first-ever president of the Alpine Club from 1886 to 1889 and the author of 'Above the Snow Line'.
In 1872 he entered the Medical School of St George's Hospital, where his brother Edward was a governor, becoming its House Surgeon in 1876 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1877. He gained his Cambridge MA in 1877. He also became a Surgeon and Lecturer at St George's Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, leaving £1500 to the latter in his will. He became a Master of Surgery in 1899
He served as an army surgeon and a correspondent for the British Medical Journal in 1899 and 1900 during the Boer War, drawing on his experiences for his later works "Letters on Gunshot Wounds". He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons' Court of Examiners (1902-1911) and of its Council (1903-1912), as well as its Hunterian Professor (1905-1912) and Vice-President (1912). He was also Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police from 1904 until his death, only the fourth man to hold that role since the force's formation in 1829.
He wrote extensively, and his publications include studies of post-surgical insanity and heart surgery. He also wrote farces and collected furniture and antique plate. At the time of his death his home was at 61 Brook Street, Mayfair, though he died at the nursing home at 7 Mandeville Place about 500 yards further north.
His funeral was on 30 August 1912 at St George's Vere Street in Marylebone, attended by almost all the Superintendents (heads of divisions) in the Metropolitan Police and its Commissioner Edward Henry. The Home Secretary did not attend but sent Sir Edward Troup to represent him, whilst the coffin was carried by officers of the Met's D (Marylebone) Division. William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury, presided both at that service and at the interment.
Clinton grew up in his parents' home on Hyde Park Gardens (appearing there in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses) and attended Eton College. He was then admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 11 June 1868, matriculating in Michaelmas term 1869 and gaining his BA in 1873. He went on expeditions to the Caucasus in 1866, 1888, 1889 and 1895 and also became a noted Alpine climber, the first-ever president of the Alpine Club from 1886 to 1889 and the author of 'Above the Snow Line'.
In 1872 he entered the Medical School of St George's Hospital, where his brother Edward was a governor, becoming its House Surgeon in 1876 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1877. He gained his Cambridge MA in 1877. He also became a Surgeon and Lecturer at St George's Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, leaving £1500 to the latter in his will. He became a Master of Surgery in 1899
He served as an army surgeon and a correspondent for the British Medical Journal in 1899 and 1900 during the Boer War, drawing on his experiences for his later works "Letters on Gunshot Wounds". He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons' Court of Examiners (1902-1911) and of its Council (1903-1912), as well as its Hunterian Professor (1905-1912) and Vice-President (1912). He was also Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police from 1904 until his death, only the fourth man to hold that role since the force's formation in 1829.
He wrote extensively, and his publications include studies of post-surgical insanity and heart surgery. He also wrote farces and collected furniture and antique plate. At the time of his death his home was at 61 Brook Street, Mayfair, though he died at the nursing home at 7 Mandeville Place about 500 yards further north.
His funeral was on 30 August 1912 at St George's Vere Street in Marylebone, attended by almost all the Superintendents (heads of divisions) in the Metropolitan Police and its Commissioner Edward Henry. The Home Secretary did not attend but sent Sir Edward Troup to represent him, whilst the coffin was carried by officers of the Met's D (Marylebone) Division. William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury, presided both at that service and at the interment.
He was the eighth child and fourth surviving son of East India agent and merchant Thomas Dent (c.1797-?) and his wife Sabine Ellen Roberts (c.1813-1881), who had married in 1837 at St George's Hanover Square in London. In 1870 Clinton's elder sister Sabine married a son of Richard Mayne, part of the first pair of Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police and later its first sole Commissioner.
Clinton grew up in his parents' home on Hyde Park Gardens (appearing there in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses) and attended Eton College. He was then admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 11 June 1868, matriculating in Michaelmas term 1869 and gaining his BA in 1873. He went on expeditions to the Caucasus in 1866, 1888, 1889 and 1895 and also became a noted Alpine climber, the first-ever president of the Alpine Club from 1886 to 1889 and the author of 'Above the Snow Line'.
In 1872 he entered the Medical School of St George's Hospital, where his brother Edward was a governor, becoming its House Surgeon in 1876 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1877. He gained his Cambridge MA in 1877. He also became a Surgeon and Lecturer at St George's Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, leaving £1500 to the latter in his will. He became a Master of Surgery in 1899
He served as an army surgeon and a correspondent for the British Medical Journal in 1899 and 1900 during the Boer War, drawing on his experiences for his later works "Letters on Gunshot Wounds". He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons' Court of Examiners (1902-1911) and of its Council (1903-1912), as well as its Hunterian Professor (1905-1912) and Vice-President (1912). He was also Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police from 1904 until his death, only the fourth man to hold that role since the force's formation in 1829.
He wrote extensively, and his publications include studies of post-surgical insanity and heart surgery. He also wrote farces and collected furniture and antique plate. At the time of his death his home was at 61 Brook Street, Mayfair, though he died at the nursing home at 7 Mandeville Place about 500 yards further north.
His funeral was on 30 August 1912 at St George's Vere Street in Marylebone, attended by almost all the Superintendents (heads of divisions) in the Metropolitan Police and its Commissioner Edward Henry. The Home Secretary did not attend but sent Sir Edward Troup to represent him, whilst the coffin was carried by officers of the Met's D (Marylebone) Division. William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury, presided both at that service and at the interment.
Clinton grew up in his parents' home on Hyde Park Gardens (appearing there in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 censuses) and attended Eton College. He was then admitted as a pensioner at Trinity College Cambridge on 11 June 1868, matriculating in Michaelmas term 1869 and gaining his BA in 1873. He went on expeditions to the Caucasus in 1866, 1888, 1889 and 1895 and also became a noted Alpine climber, the first-ever president of the Alpine Club from 1886 to 1889 and the author of 'Above the Snow Line'.
In 1872 he entered the Medical School of St George's Hospital, where his brother Edward was a governor, becoming its House Surgeon in 1876 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1877. He gained his Cambridge MA in 1877. He also became a Surgeon and Lecturer at St George's Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, leaving £1500 to the latter in his will. He became a Master of Surgery in 1899
He served as an army surgeon and a correspondent for the British Medical Journal in 1899 and 1900 during the Boer War, drawing on his experiences for his later works "Letters on Gunshot Wounds". He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons' Court of Examiners (1902-1911) and of its Council (1903-1912), as well as its Hunterian Professor (1905-1912) and Vice-President (1912). He was also Chief Surgeon of the Metropolitan Police from 1904 until his death, only the fourth man to hold that role since the force's formation in 1829.
He wrote extensively, and his publications include studies of post-surgical insanity and heart surgery. He also wrote farces and collected furniture and antique plate. At the time of his death his home was at 61 Brook Street, Mayfair, though he died at the nursing home at 7 Mandeville Place about 500 yards further north.
His funeral was on 30 August 1912 at St George's Vere Street in Marylebone, attended by almost all the Superintendents (heads of divisions) in the Metropolitan Police and its Commissioner Edward Henry. The Home Secretary did not attend but sent Sir Edward Troup to represent him, whilst the coffin was carried by officers of the Met's D (Marylebone) Division. William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury, presided both at that service and at the interment.
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