William Henry Power
Sir William Henry Power | |
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| Born | 15 December 1842 |
| Died | 28 July 1916 |
Sir William Henry Power, KCB, FRS (15 December 1842 – 28 July 1916) was a British medical doctor.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit]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.
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
[edit]Power died at Holly Lodge, East Molesey, Surrey, in 1916.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d Hardy, Anne (2004). "Power, Sir William Henry (1842–1916), epidemiologist and civil servant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. pp. 146–147. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35595. ISBN 0-19-861395-4.
- ^ "Photo of the Epidemiological Society Medal". Archives Hub. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Library and Archive". Royal Society. Retrieved 22 October 2012.
- ^ "The Royal College of Physicians of London". The Times. No. 36836. London. 2 August 1902. p. 11.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Birthday Honours". The Times. No. 36921. London. 10 November 1902. p. 10.
- ^ "No. 27499". The London Gazette. 28 November 1902. p. 8253.
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. 31 July 1916. p. 1.
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