William Henry Power Explained

Sir William Henry Power
Birth Date:15 December 1842
Death Date:28 July 1916

Sir William Henry Power, (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.

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] 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.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Power, Sir William Henry (1842 - 1916) . livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk . Royal College of Surgeons of English . 15 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240615052119/https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/detailnonmodal?d=ent%3A%2F%2FSD_ASSET%2F0%2FSD_ASSET%3A375171%7E%7E0&ic=true . 15 June 2024.
  2. Sir William Henry Power, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.R.C.S. . The British Medical Journal . 1916 . 2 . 2901 . 203–207 . 0007-1447.
  3. Book: Sheard . Sally . The Nation's Doctor: The Role of the Chief Medical Officer 1855-1998 . Donaldson . Liam . 2016 . CRC Press . 978-1-315-38500-6 . 10.1201/9781315385006.
  4. Book: Hardy . Anne . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . 2004 . Oxford University Press . 0-19-861395-4 . 146-147 . https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-35595 . en . Power, Sir William Henry (1842–1916), epidemiologist and civil servant. 10.1093/ref:odnb/35595.
  5. Web site: Photo of the Epidemiological Society Medal. Archives Hub. 2012-10-22.
  6. Web site: Library and Archive. Royal Society. 2012-10-22.
  7. The Royal College of Physicians of London . 2 August 1902 . 11 . 36836.
  8. Web site: 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 . 2021-06-24.
  9. Birthday Honours . 10 November 1902 . 10 . 36921.
  10. News: Deaths . . 31 July 1916 . 1.

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