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Henry Acland
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB FRS (23 August 1815 – 16 October 1900) was an English physician and educator.
Henry Acland was born in Killerton, Exeter, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Acland and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected 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, and in 1851 was appointed Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary.
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 Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1883, and was promoted to a Knight Commander (KCB) in 1884. He was created a baronet in 1890, and ten years later, he died at his house in Broad Street, Oxford (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 John Hunter, and the establishment of the 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.
Acland was also interested in questions of public health. He served on the Royal Commission on sanitary laws in England and Wales in 1869. He published a study of the cholera outbreak at Oxford in 1854, together with various pamphlets on sanitary matters. His memoir on the topography of the Troad, with a panoramic plan (1839), was among the fruits of a cruise he made in the Mediterranean for his health.
Acland was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1873.
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Henry Acland
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB FRS (23 August 1815 – 16 October 1900) was an English physician and educator.
Henry Acland was born in Killerton, Exeter, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Acland and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected 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, and in 1851 was appointed Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary.
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 Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1883, and was promoted to a Knight Commander (KCB) in 1884. He was created a baronet in 1890, and ten years later, he died at his house in Broad Street, Oxford (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 John Hunter, and the establishment of the 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.
Acland was also interested in questions of public health. He served on the Royal Commission on sanitary laws in England and Wales in 1869. He published a study of the cholera outbreak at Oxford in 1854, together with various pamphlets on sanitary matters. His memoir on the topography of the Troad, with a panoramic plan (1839), was among the fruits of a cruise he made in the Mediterranean for his health.
Acland was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1873.
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