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Hugh Anthony Clegg CBE FRCP (19 June 1900 – 6 July 1983) was a British medical doctor. He was editor of the British Medical Journal from 1947 to 1965. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the British Medical Association in 1966 and was awarded the CBE in the same year.
Born in St Ives, then in Huntingdonshire, Clegg was the son of the Rev. John Clegg, by his marriage to Gertrude Wilson. His father, a clergyman and schoolmaster who became the head of Lowestoft College in East Anglia, taught him classical languages, and Clegg gained scholarships at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He had two older brothers, Arnold (born 1896) and John (born 1898). In 1900, the family moved to Lowestoft, where his younger sisters, Mary, Margaret, and Veronica, and his brother Bernard were all born.
In 1931 Clegg joined the staff of the BMJ, and the next year he married Kira von Engelhardt, Baroness von Smolensk, daughter of a Russian émigré, Arthur Engelhardt, Baron von Smolensk. Their son was Nicholas P. Clegg, the father of Nick Clegg, who from 2010 to 2015 was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
He was photographed by Alexander Bassano for the National Portrait Gallery, London.