Theodore Acland

Theodore William Gull Acland ARIC (7 November 1890 – 13 October 1960) was an English educationist who in later life became a clergyman of the Church of England.

[2] He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, King's College, Cambridge (where he was an exhibitioner), and the University of Berlin.

[3] Completing his education just as the First World War broke out, Acland was commissioned into the London Electrical Engineers as a second lieutenant in October 1914,[4] then seconded for technical duties with the Department of Explosives Supplies and in 1915 with the Munitions Inventions Department.

[5] From 1920 to 1922 he served on the technical staff of Brunner, Mond & Co., then for a year with Garton & Co. From 1923 to 1930 he was a master at Stowe School, in Buckinghamshire, where he became a housemaster in 1924.

[1] Acland was also a member of the Court of Governors, of St Thomas's Hospital, London, from 1931 to 1948, and of the Grand Committee, from 1945 until his death.