Henry Wentworth Acland

Career Medic / Academic / Traveller

Biography From 1845 he worked within Oxford University, first as Dr Lee's Readership in anatomy at Christ Church and, after 1857 as regius professor of medicine and clinical professor at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1851 he was appointed Radcliffe librarian. He made many contributions to the growth of the teaching of natural sciences at the University during the nineteenth century. He was extremely influential in the development of the Oxford University Museum (of Natural History). [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 30/11/2006]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62 / Who Was Who 2007 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wentworth_Acland

Clubs & Societies Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Athenaeum / Ashmolean [Natural History] Society / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Royal Society / Royal Geographical Society

County Yorkshire / Devon / Gloucestershire / London [Greater] / Cornwall

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnography

Collected around By 1900

Dates active 1815-1900

Donated around By 1900

Owned By 1900

English collections Miscellaneous selection including flute, pair of spectacles, pottery sherds, tools etc

Oxford Uni College Christ Church College

Oxford Uni Education Yes

Oxford Uni date 1834 - 1840

Oxford based Yes

Date in Oxford 1845 - 1900

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62

English collection size 8

Connections Edward Burnett Tylor / George Rolleston / Henry Balfour / Thomas William Taphouse / Oxford University Museum of Natural History / Department of Geology, Oxford University Museum of Natural History