was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1870; was president of the Pathological Society (1881–1882); president of the Neurological Society (1887); member of the Senate of the University of London (1887–1900); member of the General Medicine Council (1887–1896) and president of the Royal College of Physicians (1896–1899). He was named Physician Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1897. The following year he was created a baronet, of Grosvenor Street in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square in the County of London. Later life In later life he suffered a stroke and was terminally paraplegic. He died aged 87 at his home in Hampstead on 8 November 1911. After his death the baronetcy became extinct. He had married Mrs. Elizabeth Anne Prior, widow of previous employer Richard Prior; they had no children. Publications Lectures on Pathological Anatomy, 1869 Lectures on the Specific Fevers and on Diseases of the Chest, 1874 Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, 1878 Lectures on Pathology Delivered at the London Hospital. J & A Churchill, London, 1891. A Biographical History of Guy's Hospital, 1892 (with G. T. Bettany) The Relation of Man to the Animal World (1907) References Kauntze R.: Samuel Wilks. Guy's Hosp Rep. 1970; 119(4):353-5. External links The Wilks Report on Addison's Disease (1862) complete 1824 births 1911 deaths People from Camberwell 19th-century English medical doctors Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Physicians of Guy's Hospital