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Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Baronet, (25 September 1842 – 15 December 1925) was a British physician, Physician Royal to
Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Baronet, (25 September 1842 – 15 December 1925) was a British physician, Physician Royal to Queen Victoria
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, Edward VII
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and George V
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, president of various medical societies, etc.
Powell studied medicine at University College, London
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, becoming house physician there under Dr William Jenner. He later worked at Brompton Hospital, the Marylebone Dispensary, the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, Charing Cross Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital
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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.
He was elected President of the Medical Society of London
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(1891), the Clinical Society of London (1899–1901), the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society
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(1904–1906) and the Royal College of Physicians
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(1905–1909). He delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1914.
He was created a baronet of Wimpole Street in 1897.
Family
In 1900, Powell's elder daughter Dorothy Juliet Powell married Edward Arthur Leadam, only son of W. Ward Leadam, MD.References