Acland, SIR HENRY WENTWORTH, K.C.B.

Acland, SIR HENRY WENTWORTH, K.C.B. (1884), regius professor of medicine at Oxford 1858–94, was born 23d August 1815, from Harrow proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford, and having in 1841 obtained an All Souls-fellowship, in 1848 took his M.D. In 1890 he was made a baronet. He died 16th Oct. 1900.—His eldest brother, Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, born at Killerton, Devon, 25th May 1809, was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, entered parliament in 1837 a Conservative, but in 1865 turned Liberal. In 1871 he succeeded his father as eleventh baronet. He died 29th May 1899. His second son, ARTHUR HERBERT DYKE ACLAND, born in 1847, was educated at Rugby and Christ Church, and in 1885–99 was Liberal M.P. for the Rotherham division of Yorkshire, in 1892–95 was Vice-president of the Council (Education).