Sir Joseph Fayrer, 1st Baronet FRS FRSE FRCS FRCP KCSI LLD was a British physician who served as Surgeon General in India. He is noted for his writings on medicine, work on public health and his studies particularly on the treatment of snakebite, in India. He was also involved in official investigation on cholera, in which he did not accept the idea, proposed by Robert Koch, of germs as the cause of cholera.
Basil Champneys was an English architect and author whose most notable buildings include Manchester's John Rylands Library, Somerville College Library (Oxford), Newnham College, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Mansfield College, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford's Rhodes Building.
Henry Francis Pelham, FSA, FBA was an English scholar and historian. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1889 to 1907, and was also President of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1897 to 1907.
Richard Westmacott (the younger) RA (14 April 1799 – 19 April 1872) – also sometimes described as Richard Westmacott III (to distinguish him from his father and grandfather – both sculptors bearing the same name) – was a prominent English sculptor of the early and mid-19th century.
Paul Storr was an English goldsmith and silversmith working in the Neoclassical and other styles during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His works range from simple tableware to magnificent sculptural pieces made for royalty.
Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker, was a British peer and academic.
The Dalrymple-White Baronetcy, of High Mark in the County of Wigtown, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 28 July 1926 for the soldier and Conservative politician Godfrey Dalrymple-White. As of 2007 the title is held by his grandson, the third Baronet, who succeeded his father in 2006.
Weldon Champneys was an English clergyman and rower who twice won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta.
Sir Thomas Baring, 2nd Baronet, was a British banker and Member of Parliament.
The Champneys, later Dalrymple-Champneys Baronetcy, of Littlemeads in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 13 July 1910 for the distinguished physician Francis Champneys. The second Baronet assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. The title became extinct on his death in 1980.
John Henderson Hunt, Baron Hunt of Fawley, was a British general practitioner (GP) who, in 1952, co-founded the College of General Practitioners. In 1967 the royal prefix was approved and the college was renamed the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He became its president in the same year.
Champneys is an English country house near Wigginton, Hertfordshire, run as a "destination spa", and the brand name of the associated chain of spas.
William Weldon Champneys was an Anglican priest and author in the 19th century. He served as Dean of Lichfield from 1868 until his death.
Sir Arthur Salusbury MacNalty was the 8th Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom. Arthur MacNalty was also a ground breaking medical scientist. In 1908, early in his career, he joined with the Welshman Thomas Lewis (cardiologist) to demonstrate that tracings from the nascent science of electrocardiography (ECG) could be used as a tool for diagnosing Heart block. This use of electrocardiography to diagnose heart block was the earliest use of ECG technology in cardiology and clinical medicine. He was a pioneer in the modern discipline of public health and in the speciality of preventive medicine. In the 1930s, MacNalty became among the earliest public health authorities, if not the earliest, to warn against the serious medical dangers of fad dieting (slimming) and anti-obesity medications. He was particularly concerned with the neurological side effects of the popular practice of dosing with thyroid extract to lose weight. MacNalty was a prolific author of acclaimed medical and other histories, which have retained their value. He is the author of 96 books in the fields of medicine and history in 154 publications in three languages, which are held in at least 2,700 library collections.
Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet, FRCP was a Scottish physician and paediatrician, and the original editor of the medical books, Clinical Methods and Food and the Principles of Dietetics.
Rev Canon Frank Ernest Utterton was Archdeacon of Surrey from 1906 until 1908, then the second most senior post in the Diocese of Winchester.
The Obstetrical Society of London was formed in 1858 and merged in 1907 with the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London to form the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).
Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys, 2nd Baronet was a British physician who was a leading figure in the public health service.
Vernon Faithfull Storr was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Westminster from 1931 to 1936.
Lady Norma Dalrymple-Champneys was a British scholar of English literature, a librarian at Somerville College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and a winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for 1990.
