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Letter, 8 September 1879
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CA MUA MG 1022-2-1-142-0008
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8 September 1879 (Creation)
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- Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900
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- Champlain (N.Y.)
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(1815-1900)
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Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, was born on August 23, 1815, in Killerton, England.
He was an English physician and educator. He studied at Harrow and at Christ Church, Oxford and was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1840. He then studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. Returning to Oxford, he was appointed Lee's reader in anatomy at Christ Church in 1845 and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847. In 1851, he was appointed Radcliffe librarian and physician to the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1858, he became Regius Professor of Medicine, a post which he retained till 1894. He took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford Medical School. He served on the Royal Commission on sanitary laws in England and Wales in 1869 and published a study of the outbreak of cholera at Oxford in 1854, together with various pamphlets on sanitary matters. He was also a curator of the university galleries and of the Bodleian Library.
In 1846, he married Sarah Cotton. He died on October 16, 1900, in Oxford, England.
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Letter from Ackland to John William Dawson, written Champlain.