William Henry Allchin

William Henry Allchin
Born (1846-10-16)16 October 1846
Paris
Died 8 February 1912(1912-02-08) (aged 65)
East Malling, Kent
Nationality British
Occupation Physician

William Henry Allchin FRCP, FRSE (1846–1912) was an English physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine.[1] He was knighted in 1907.[2]

Biography

Born in Paris, William Allchin was the eldest son of a physician from Bayswater and entered University College, London to study medicine. He served as chief surgeon of the SS Great Eastern for 5 years when the ship was laying cable.[3] He graduated from University College, London as M.B. in 1871. At Westminster Hospital he became an assistant physician in 1873 and a physician in 1877 and dean from 1878 to 1883 and again from 1890 to 1893; he retired from the hospital staff in 1905. Allchin was the editor of the Manual of Medicine[4] and a contributor to Quain’s Dictionary of Medicine, Allbutt’s System of Medicine,[1] and Keating's Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children.[2]

On 19 August 1880, Allchin married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Holland of New York.[3]

Honours

  • 1891 — Bradshaw Lecturer[2]
  • 1901 — President of the Medical Society of London[2]
  • 1903 — Harveian Orator[2]
  • 1905 — Lumleian Lecturer[2]
  • 1907 — Knighthood[2]
  • 1910 — Physician-Extraordinary to King George V[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Munk's Roll Details for William Henry (Sir) Allchin, Royal College of Physicians
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Allchin, William Henry". Who's Who: 29. 1912.
  3. 1 2 Welch, Charles, ed. (1905). London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Brighton: W. T. Pike & Co. p. 195.
  4. ↑ Manual of Medicine in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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