William Ogle BA DM FRCP (21 December 1827 - 12 April 1912) was an English physician and classicist who became registrar-general of the

General Register Office General Register Office or General Registry Office (GRO) is the name given to the civil registry in the United Kingdom, many other Commonwealth nations and Ireland. The GRO is the government agency responsible for the recording of vital record ...

.
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Rugby School Rugby School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Up ...

Ogle took a BA in Natural Sciences at

Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12th ...

. He lectured in physiology at

St George's Hospital St George's Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Tooting, London. Founded in 1733, it is one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and one of the largest hospitals in Europe. It is run by the St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundatio ...

after which he was appointed to various other posts before retiring from there and working at the General Register Office, where he was eventually appointed registrar-general. After retirement he made use of his classical Greek in the translation of various works of

Aristotle Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...

, notably ''

The Parts of Animals ''Parts of Animals'' (or ''On the Parts of Animals''; Greek Περὶ ζῴων μορίων; Latin ''De Partibus Animalium'') is one of Aristotle's major texts on biology. It was written around 350 BC. The whole work is roughly a study in animal ...

'' a copy of which he presented to

Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

. Leroi, Armand Marie; ''The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science''; (Bloomsbury, London; Paperback edition 2015 pp. 274-275. )

Bibliography

Works by William Ogle:British Library catalogue
(recovered March 2017). * 1882 ''Aristotle on the Parts of Animals'' Translated, with introduction and notes, by W. Ogle. London: Kegan Paul & Co. * 1897 ''Aristotle On Youth & Old Age, Life & Death and Respiration'' Translated, with introduction and notes by W. Ogle. London: Longmans & Co.

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* 1827 births 1912 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford {{England-med-bio-stub