[1][2][3] After education at Charterhouse School,[1] William Henry Stone matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 30 November 1848.
At St Thomas' Hospital, he lectured on forensic medicine, became in 1874 assistant physician and lecturer on materia medica and physics, and became in 1882 full physician; he retired there in the summer of 1890 due to health problems.
[1][2] In 1868 Stone became physician to the London office of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society[1][5] and continued in that capacity for many years.
[2] Stone delivered, to the Royal College of Physicians, the Croonian Lecture (On some Applications of Physics to Medicine) in 1879.
[8] He delivered the Lumleian Lectures (The Electrical Condition of the Human Body: Man as a Conductor and Electrolyte) in 1886[9][10] and the Harveian Oration in 1887.