Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Baronet, (25 September 1842 – 15 December 1925) was a British physician,
Physician Royal to
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until Death and state funeral of Queen Victoria, her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 21 ...
,
Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria an ...
and
George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936.
Born duri ...
, president of various medical societies, etc.
Powell studied medicine at
University College, London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
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, becoming house physician there under Dr
William Jenner. He later worked at
Brompton Hospital
Royal Brompton Hospital is the largest specialist heart and lung medical centre in the United Kingdom. It is managed by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
History Consumption in the 19th Century
In the 19th century, consumption was a co ...
, the
Marylebone Dispensary, the
Evelina Hospital for Sick Children,
Charing Cross Hospital
Charing Cross Hospital is an acute general teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. The present hospital was opened in 1973, although it was originally established in 1818, approximately five miles east, in central Lond ...
and the
Middlesex Hospital
Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos ...
.
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In 1887 he was appointed as physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, later succeeding Jenner as physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V.
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He was elected President of the ]Medical Society of London
The Medical Society of London is one of the oldest surviving medical societies (being organisations of voluntary association, rather than regulation or training) in the United Kingdom.
It was founded in 1773 by the Quaker physician and philanthrop ...
(1891), the Clinical Society of London The Clinical Society of London was founded in London in 1868 and merged in 1907 with the Royal Society of Medicine.
The founding of the Clinical Society was mainly due to Drs. Edward Headlam Greenhow and John Burdon Sanderson who convened a meeting ...
(1899–1901), the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London was a learned society of physicians and surgeons which was founded in 1805 by 26 personalities in these fields who had left the Medical Society of London (founded 1773) because of disagreement with the ...
(1904–1906) and the Royal College of Physicians
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(1905–1909). He delivered the Harveian Oration
The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of the systemic circulation. Harvey made financial provision for the college to hold an annual feas ...
at the Royal College of Physicians in 1914.
He was created a baronet of Wimpole Street in 1897.[
]
Family
Powell's elder daughter Dorothy Juliet Powell married in 1900 Edward Arthur Leadam, only son of W. Ward Leadam, MD.
References
1842 births
1925 deaths
Alumni of University College London
19th-century English medical doctors
Powell, 1st Baronet
Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Presidents of the Royal College of Physicians
Knights of Grace of the Order of St John
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