William Henry Power

Sir William Henry Power
Born(1842-12-15)15 December 1842
Died28 July 1916(1916-07-28) (aged 73)

Sir William Henry Power, KCB, FRS (15 December 1842 – 28 July 1916) was a British medical doctor.[1][2][3]

Biography

William Power was born on 15 December 1842 in London, the eldest son of the surgeon William Henry Power and his wife Charlotte Smart.[4] He studied at University College, London, before taking up an apprenticeship with his father. [4] He qualified MRCS and LSA after studying medicine at St Bartholomew's.[4]

Power served as Assistant Medical Officer and Medical Inspector for General Sanitary Purposes of the Local Government Board.[4] The entomologist and lecturer of medicine, John Arthur Power was an uncle.

In January 1900, Power was appointed Chief Medical Officer of England, and served as such until 1908.[4]

In 1898 Power was awarded the first Jenner Memorial Medal of the Epidemiological Society of London.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and awarded their Buchanan Medal in 1907.[6] He won the Bisset Hawkins Medal from the Royal College of Physicians in 1902.[7][8]

Power was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[9][10] and knighted as a Knight Commander (KCB) of the same order in 1908.[6]

Death

Power died at Holly Lodge, East Molesey, Surrey, in 1916.[11]

References

  1. ^ "Power, Sir William Henry (1842 - 1916)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Royal College of Surgeons of English. Archived from the original on 15 June 2024. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Sir William Henry Power, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.S." The British Medical Journal. 2 (2901): 203–207. 1916. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 20304904.
  3. ^ Sheard, Sally; Donaldson, Liam (2016). The Nation's Doctor: The Role of the Chief Medical Officer 1855-1998. CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781315385006. ISBN 978-1-315-38500-6.
  4. ^ a b c d e Hardy, Anne (2004). "Power, Sir William Henry (1842–1916), epidemiologist and civil servant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 146–147. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35595. ISBN 0-19-861395-4. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ "Photo of the Epidemiological Society Medal". Archives Hub. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
  7. ^ "The Royal College of Physicians of London". The Times. No. 36836. London. 2 August 1902. p. 11.
  8. ^ "Full text of "A list of the fellows, members, extra-licentiates and licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1859-[1986]"". Internet Archive. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Birthday Honours". The Times. No. 36921. London. 10 November 1902. p. 10.
  10. ^ "No. 27499". The London Gazette. 28 November 1902. p. 8253.
  11. ^ "Deaths". The Times. 31 July 1916. p. 1.


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