Richard Acland

Richard Dyke Acland (3 October 1881 – 4 January 1954) He served in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry and reached the rank of captain. He became a missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in the following year in Ahmednagar, India. He was the society's secretary between 1925 and 1929, and served as Bishop of Bombay until 1947. and was a member of the Bombay Natural History Society and served as a vice president alongside J.F. Caius in 1943. In the latter year, he was decorated with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal. In 1948, he returned to England and was then assistant to the Bishop of Bath and Wells until his death in 1954.