William Copeman

William Sidney Charles Copeman CBE TD FRCP (1900 – 24 November 1970) was a British rheumatologist and a medical historian, best remembered for his contributions to the study of arthritic disease.

He worked at the Arthur Stanley Institute for Rheumatic Diseases at Middlesex Hospital,[3] as well as being the consultant rheumatologist for the British Army and the Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond.

[2] In 1936, he set up the Empire Rheumatism Council, now known as Arthritis Research UK.

[4] As a medical historian, Copeman gave the Fitzpatrick Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians, which formed the content for his 1960 book Doctors and Diseases in Tudor Times.

He also published a book on the History of Gout and Rheumatic Diseases which stemmed from lectures given at the University of California at Los Angeles.