Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland Bt KCB FRS (1815 - 1900)

Born 23 Aug 1815 in Killerton, Broadclyst, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Cotton) Acland — married 14 Jul 1846 in Leytonstone, Essex, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 16 Oct 1900 at age 85 in Broad Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

SIr Henry Wentworth Acland KCB, KCR (Brazil), MD, MA, LLD, DCL, FRS, was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland and his wife Lydia.^[1] He was born on 23 August 1815^[2] and baptised 15 September 1815 at Broad Clyst, Devon. He was not given the name Dyke at birth^[3][4], but he felt it was an important enough feature of his ancestry to pass the name on to most of his children.^[5]

Sir Henry married Sarah, eldest daughter of WIlliam Cotton DCL, on 14 July 1846^[6] in Leytonstone, Essex. She died in 1878.^[1]

Educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, he was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1840, and then studied medicine in London and Edinburgh. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847. He was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 1858 and the honorary physician to the Prince of Wales from 1862. In 1890 he was said to be living at Oxford and was a member of the Athenaeum Club.^[1]

Acland was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1883 and was promoted to a Knight Commander (KCB) in 1884. Already the son of a baronet, in 1890 he was created 1st Baronet Acland of St Mary Magdalene, in the county of Oxfordshire (in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom) in his own right.

Sir Henry died in October 1900^[7][8] and was buried St Cross, Holywell, Oxford^[9]. A memorial tablet was placed in what is now the Military Chapel at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford^[10]. Probate to his estate was granted on 21 December 1900 to WIlliam Alison Dyke Acland, Henry Dyke Acland and Reginald Brodie Dyke Acland.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} 1890 Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes, database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: 1890 Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. London, England: Kelly & Co.
2. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVK9-5YV1 : 6 August 2020), Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, ; Burial, Holywell, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, St. Cross Churchyard; citing record ID 31842415, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
3. ↑ Baptism register, Broad Clyst parish church, 1815, page 17 entry 135, Sept. 15th, Henry Wentworth son of Thomas Dyke Acland, baronet, of Killerton, and Lady Lydia Elizabeth Acland. Original image from South West Heritage Trust viewed at FindMyPast: search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBPRS%2FDEV%2F100770543%2F00028&parentid=GBPRS%2FDEV2%2FBAP%2F0530253
4. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JWX4-NZ4 : 18 September 2020), Henry Wentworth Acland, 1815.
5. ↑ Atlay, p.13.
6. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPCV-3V76 : 18 April 2019), Henry Wentworth Acland, Esq, Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom, 18 Jul 1846, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm.
7. ↑ "British Newspaper Archives, Obituaries," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q269-78P7 : 26 October 2019), Henry Wentworth Acland, Sir or Bart or Kcb or Frs, 20 Oct 1900; citing Obituary, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom, page , Records extracted by FindMyPast and images digitized by FamilySearch. The British Library, London; FHL microfilm 102,001,261.
8. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JRW-L37 : 31 December 2014), Henry Wentworth Acland, 1900; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.
9. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #31842415 : accessed 17 September 2021, memorial page for Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland (23 Aug 1815–16 Oct 1900), citing St. Cross Churchyard, Holywell, City of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England .
10. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #240049321
11. ↑ "England and Wales, National Index of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPL7-6MQM : 17 September 2018), Henry Wentworth Acland, 21 Dec 1900; citing Probate, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Great Britain.; FHL microfilm 251,378.

See also:

• "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7QN-TJW : 25 May 2019), Henry Acland in household of Thomas Henry Ashhurst, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
• B. Atlay, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, Bart. (Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1903) archive.org/details/b31355377/page/n7
• Wikidata: Item Q5717091, en:Wikipedia
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acland_baronets#Acland_baronets,_of_St_Mary_Magdalen_(1890)