Henry W. Acland

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, (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 at 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 of the Bodleian Library, and 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 personal physician on his tour of Canada and the United States. 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).