ACLAND, SIR HENRY WENTWORTH, BART. ( 1815— 190o), English physician and man of learning, was born near Exeter on Aug. 23, 1815, and died at Oxford on Oct. 16,19oo. He was regius professor of medicine at Oxford from 1858 to 1894. He was also a curator of the university galleries and of the Bodleian Library, and from 1858 to 1887 he represented his university on the General Medical Council, serving as president from 1874 to 1887. Acland took a leading part in the revival of the Oxford medi cal school and in introducing the study of natural science into the university. 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" at Oxford. Acland published a study of the outbreak of cholera at Oxford in 1854, together with various pamphlets on sanitary matters, and served on the royal com mission on sanitary laws in England and Wales, in 1869.
See Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, a memoir by J. B. Atlay, with portraits (1903).