Name Index

To

Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, President of the first Totnes Meeting

Trans. Devon. Assoc. 2, 4th series (1920), pp. 207-222.

by

Hester Forbes Julian, FGS, FRAI.

Prepared by Michael Steer

Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB (1815-1900) was a physician and educator. Born at Killerton, Exeter, the fourth son of Sir Thomas Acland and Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He was elected fellow in 1840, then studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. Acland took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford medical school and in introducing the study of natural science into the university. He was also interested in questions of public health, serving on the royal commission on sanitary laws in England and Wales in 1869. He published a study of the outbreak of cholera at Oxford in 1854. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the Princeton University Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.