Henry Acland

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Henry Acland.
Henry Acland (right) with John Ruskin in 1893, taken by Acland's daughter, Sarah Angelina Acland.

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet,

KCB FRS (23 August 1815 – 16 October 1900)[1]
was an English physician and educator.

Life

Henry Acland was born in

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1840, and then studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. Returning to Oxford, he was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church in 1845, was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847,[2] and in 1851 was appointed Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary.[3]

Seven years later, he became Regius Professor of Medicine, a post which he retained till 1894. He was also a curator of the university galleries and the Bodleian Library. From 1858 to 1887, he represented his university on the General Medical Council, of which he served as president from 1874 to 1887.

In 1860 he accompanied the then Prince of Wales as his physician on his Canada and the United States tour.

Acland was appointed a

Knight Commander (KCB) in 1884.[5] He was created a baronet in 1890,[6] and ten years later, he died at his house in Broad Street, Oxford[3]
(number 40 on the site of the new Bodleian Library building).

Acland took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford medical school and introduced the study of natural science into the university. As Lee's reader, he began to form a collection of anatomical and physiological preparations on the plan of

Oxford University Museum, opened in 1861, as a centre for the encouragement of the study of science, especially concerning medicine, was due primarily to his efforts. "To Henry Acland," said his lifelong friend, John Ruskin, "physiology was an entrusted gospel of which he was the solitary preacher to the heathen," but on the other hand, his thorough classical training preserved science at Oxford from too abrupt a severance from the humanities. In conjunction with Dean Liddell, he revolutionised the study of art and archaeology, to cultivate these subjects, for which, as Ruskin declared, no one at Oxford cared before that time, began to flourish in the university.[3]

Acland was also interested in questions of public health. He served on the

Mediterranean for his health.[3]

Acland was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1873.[7]

His son, Colonel

HM Queen Victoria
.

Marriage and children

Henry Acland. "Travellers by a Swiss glacier".

He married Sarah Cotton, daughter of William Cotton and Sarah Lane, on 14 July 1846. They had seven sons and a daughter:

The old

Keble College), was founded in memory of Acland's wife, Sarah
.

Their daughter,

Museum of the History of Science in Broad Street, opposite the family home.[8]

References

  1. ISBN 0-550-18022-2
    , p. 6
  2. ^ List of Fellows of the Royal Society, A – J Archived 12 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine. royalsociety.org
  3. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth, Bart.". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 149.
  4. ^ "No. 25278". The London Gazette. 16 October 1883. p. 4918.
  5. ^ "No. 25358". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 May 1884. p. 2331.
  6. ^ "No. 26061". The London Gazette. 13 June 1890. p. 3297.
  7. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  8. Museum of the History of Science
    . Retrieved 16 January 2013.

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