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ACLAND, Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke (1815-1900)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP1

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: ACLAND, Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke (1815-1900)

Date(s): 1861

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth Dyke | 1815-1900 | Baronet | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland was born 23 August 1815; 4th son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Bt of Killerton, Exeter; Educated at Harrow School; Christ Church, Oxford (Hon. Student). Fellow of All Souls, 1840. He was Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford, 1857-1894; Member of Medical Council, 1854-1874, and President, 1874-1887; Member of Sanitary Commission, 1870-1872, and also served as Radcliffe Librarian, Oxford, from 1851; Hon. Physician to Prince of Wales.
Awarded 1st Bt, 1890; KCB 1884 (CB 1883); MD, DCL, LLD; FRS 1847. In 1846 he married, Sarah Cotton (died 1878). Died 16 October 1900.
Publications Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford in the year 1854, with considerations suggested by the epidemic, John Churchill and J. H. & J. Parker: London, 1856.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Godfrey Lushington (1832-1907) to Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, relating to the son of Rev F D Maurice coming to Christ Church, Oxford 21 Oct 1861.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

This collection level description summary guide available online.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library

Immediate source of acquisition:

: Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Acland's correspondence and papers 1820-1900,(Ref: MSS Acland), letters to George Richmond, held at the Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts; correspondence and papers, 1850-1900, held at the Oxford University: Radcliffe Science Library; family correspondence 1822-1839 (Ref: 1148M), letters to Arthur Acland 1835-1847 (Ref: p99):held at the Devon Record Office; misc correspondence and papers relating to the founding of Oxford University Museum (Ref: History of Building/Boxes 1-5 passim), correspondence relation to Oxford science departments c1849-1900 (Ref: History of Museum (Smith-Tylor)/Box 2), letters to Sir EB Poulton c1880-1900, held at the Oxford University: Museum of Natural History; letters (71) to Sir William Anson 1883-99 (Ref: Anson) held at Oxford University: All Souls College; correspondence with WE Gladstone 1841-1897 (Ref: Add MS 44091), correspondence with Florence Nightingale 1867-1897 (Ref: Add MS 45786) letters to Sir Richard Owen 1843-1888 (Ref: Add MS 39954) held at the British Library, Manuscript Collections; letters to Sir George Stokes1881-1892 (Ref: Add 7342, 7656) , held at the Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives; letters to Sir Walter Trevelyan 1847-1869 (Ref: WCT) held at Newcastle upon Tyne University: The Robinson Library; letters (12) 1875-1889, held at the Royal College of Physicians of London; correspondence with Lord Rosebery 1894-1895, held at the National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections (Ref: MSS 10097-160 Passim).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Who's Who 1897-1996 CD-ROM (A & C Black); Historical Manuscripts Commission online National Register of Archives; British Library Online Public Catalogue.
Compiled by Alison Field

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January 2004


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects

Personal names
Acland | Sir | Henry Wentworth Dyke | 1815-1900 | Baronet | physician
Lushington | Sir | Godfrey | 1832-1907 | Knight | civil servant
Maurice | John Frederick Denison | 1805-1872 | theologian and Christian Socialist x Maurice | Frederick Denison

Corporate names
University of Oxford | Christ Church College x Oxford University | Christ Church College

Places