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Authorised form of nameAcland; Sir; Henry Wentworth Dyke (1815 - 1900)
Dates1815 - 1900
NationalityBritish
Place of birthKillerton, Devon, England
Date of birth23 August 1815
Place of deathBroad Street, Oxford
Date of death16/10/1900
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Holywell cemetery, Oxford
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School. MD
Career:
Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (by 1846); Dr Lee's Reader in Anatomy, Oxford (by 1846)
Honours:
CB 1883; KCB 1884; Bt 1890
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/01/1847
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 169-174 signed by J B S
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/5110922
CodeNA1621
Archives associated with this Fellow
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NLB/4/244Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, Fellow of the Royal Society24 March 1890
NLB/6/539Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1892
NLB/9/918Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Acland, Fellow of the Royal Society27 July 1894
NLB/14/4Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Henry Acland, Broad Street, Oxford9 December 1896
NLB/14/456Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, Fellow of the Royal Society15 March 1897
EC/1847/02Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/3/306Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir Henry Acland, Fellow of the Royal Society4 May 1889
IM/000020Acland, Sir Henry Wentworth Dykend
PT/64/2Paper, 'On the aquiferous and oviducal system in the Lamellibranchiate mollusks' by George Rolleston and C [Charles] Robertson[1861]
RR/4/191Referee's report by Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, on a paper 'On the vertebral characters of the order pterosauria, as exemplified in the genera pterodactylus (cuvier) and dimorphodon (Owen)' by Richard Owen2 July 1859
MC/8/259Letter from Hy W [Henry Wentworth Dyke] Acland, Oxford, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society]19 October 1868
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
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