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| Birthplace: | Exeter, UK |
| Death: | Died in Richmond, Greater London, UK |
| Occupation: | Physician, educator |
| Managed by: | Michael Rhodes |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Henry_Acland,_1st_Baronet
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, 1st Baronet, KCB (23 August 1815 – 16 October 1900).[1] was an English physician and educator.
Acland took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford medical school and in introducing the study of natural science into the university. As Lee's reader he began to form a collection of anatomical and physiological preparations on the plan of John Hunter, and the establishment of the Oxford University Museum, opened in 1861, as a centre for the encouragement of the study of science, especially in relation to medicine, was largely due to his efforts. "To Henry Acland," said his lifelong friend, John Ruskin, "physiology was an entrusted gospel of which he was the solitary preacher to the heathen," but on the other hand his thorough classical training preserved science at Oxford from too abrupt a severance from the humanities. In conjunction with Dean Liddell, he revolutionized the study of art and archaeology, so that the cultivation of these subjects, for which, as Ruskin declared, no one at Oxford cared before that time, began to flourish in the university.
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August 23, 1815
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Exeter, UK
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| 1847 |
December 18, 1847
Age 32
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| 1849 |
June 26, 1849
Age 33
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| 1850 |
October 14, 1850
Age 35
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| 1851 |
November 14, 1851
Age 36
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| 1855 |
April 9, 1855
Age 39
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| 1856 |
March 18, 1856
Age 40
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| 1857 |
May 12, 1857
Age 41
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| 1858 |
August 19, 1858
Age 42
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Exeter, UK
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| 1900 |
October 16, 1900
Age 85
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Richmond, Greater London, UK
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