Henry Acland

[5] He was created a baronet in 1890,[6] and ten years later, he died at his house in Broad Street, Oxford[3] (number 40 on the site of the new Bodleian Library building).

As Lee's reader, he began to form a collection of anatomical and physiological preparations on the plan of John Hunter, and the establishment of the Oxford University Museum, opened in 1861, as a centre for the encouragement of the study of science, especially concerning medicine, was due primarily to his efforts.

"To Henry Acland," said his lifelong friend, John Ruskin, "physiology was an entrusted gospel of which he was the solitary preacher to the heathen," but on the other hand, his thorough classical training preserved science at Oxford from too abrupt a severance from the humanities.

In conjunction with Dean Liddell, he revolutionised the study of art and archaeology, to cultivate these subjects, for which, as Ruskin declared, no one at Oxford cared before that time, began to flourish in the university.

Another son, Theodore Dyke Acland married the daughter of Sir William Gull, a leading London medical practitioner and one of the Physicians-in-Ordinary to HM Queen Victoria.