Arthur Crowen Clifton M.R.C.S. (22 December 1825 – 16 February 1909) was an orthodox physician and surgeon who converted to homeopathy to become a Physician at the London Homeopathic Hospital.
Arthur Clifton was a member and President of The British Homeopathic Society, and in April 1856 was elected as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons.
For 40 years, Arthur Clifton was an advocate of homeopathy through many storms.
About 1880 John Henry Clarke was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital, alongside Arthur Crowden Clifton, John Rutherford Russell and David MacNish. Charles Lloyd Tuckey was Assistant Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital at this time.
Arthur Clifton knew George Eliot, through her friend Kate Shaw.
Arthur Clifton practiced at 9 East Park Parade, Northampton, and at 65 Abingdon Street, Northampton.
Arthur Clifton was also Surgeon at the Northamptonshire Homeopathic Dispensary in Abington Street, Northampton, alongside Alfred George Wilkinson. Clifton was succeeded at his Parade pharmacy by homeopathic chemist and veterinary surgeon, John Parton Berry.
M.D. (Hon.), New York, M.R.C.S. England
https://www.homeoint.org/photo/c3/cliftonac.htm He had so much faith in the pioneer work of the London Homeopathic Hospital that he endowed a bed in the Hospital by a gift of £ 1,000 as an example to others who acknowledge, but do not always show, their practical sympathy to the cause by such acts.
Arthur Clifton was a cousin of mine and lived in Northampton. He was the homeopathic doctor, and used to come in and see “Aunt Kate” (Grannie) and she being Allopath they used to have great discussions on medicine. However, A. Clifton made his mark, went on a trip to America representing the Homeopathic doctors of England, and was conferred the title of Doctor, he held the M.R.C.S.E. degree and was not an M.D. so Grannie had another pull at him. However he was good to me as a youngster and I used to go into the country with him when he went to see patients – so saw a lot of the country. He had a good library that I had free run of – so with his library and John Brown’s I was well supplied with books. Mrs. Clifton too was a wonderful woman and good to me, she and Mrs. Brown being alike.
Arthur Clifton wrote various articles for homeopathic publications.
Arthur Clifton’s Obituary is in the Transactions of the … Session of the American Institute of Homœopathy, The Pacific Coast Journal of Homœopathy, and Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society.
Of interest:
Arthur C Clifton was a homeopathic Chemist who practiced alongside James Epps.
E Clifton was also a homeopath in Ipswich in 1878.
Frederick William Clifton MRCS Edin., LRCP, LM was also a homeopath who practiced in Sheffield and Derby in 1909.
George Clifton also a homeopath, Physician at the Leicester Homeopathic Dispensary in 1872.
A cousin was former President of the British Homeopathic Congress, Henry Harris.
When a student, Arthur Crowen Clifton was ‘pharmaceutist assistant’ to Charles Thomas Pearce at the Northampton Homœopathic Dispensary. He is also credited with publishing Pearce’s monthly paper, ‘The Homœopathic Record’.
A decade after Pearce’s death, Clifton defended his reputation in an article in the ‘Monthly Homœopathic Review’ (1st March 1894), stating, “I would say that what I have been able to do here and elsewhere for a furtherance of knowledge of Homœopathy … has been largely due to my intimacy with Dr. Pearce and the instruction I derived from him.”