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Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet

1815–1900

Physician. Lee’s Reader in anatomy at Christ Church, Oxford, 1845–58. Regius professor of medicine, University of Oxford, 1857–94. Medical adviser to the prince of Wales, 1859. FRS 1847. Created baronet, 1890.

Sources

ODNB

Physicians.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

Physicians: The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London. By William Munk. 2d edition, revised and enlarged. 3 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. 1878. Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Compiled by G. H. Brown et al. 5 vols. London: Royal College of Physicians. Oxford and Washington, D.C.: IRL Press. 1955–89.

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