Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Bart. (1815-1900) was Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford 1858-94. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

The Acland papers consist mainly of the correspondence of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland. There are also groups of papers of his daughter Sarah Angelina, of his wife Sarah, of two of his sons, Sir William A. Dyke Acland, and Henry Dyke Acland, and of his brother-in-law William C. Cotton.

Given by H. D. and Sarah A. Acland, 1926-7

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 37300-510.

A fuller description and detailed index are available in the Library and at the National Register of Archives.

See also Additional papers of Henry Wentworth Acland and his daughter, Sarah Angelina Acland (MSS. Eng. e. 3398-9).

Medicine

Acland | Henry Dyke | 1850-1936

Acland | Henry Wentworth | 1815-1900 | Sir | 1st Baronet Physician

Acland | Sarah | d 1878 | Wife of 1st Baronet

Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts

Acland | William Alison Dyke | 1847-1924 | Sir | 2nd Baronet Admiral

Cotton | William Charles | 1813-1879 | Writer On Bees

Acland | family | 1800-2000 | baronets | Oxford