Sidney Coupland

Sidney Coupland (3 December 1849 – 29 April 1930, in Boars Hill near Oxford) was an English physician, specializing in pathological anatomy.

Life He was the son of William Newton Coupland, a merchant of Streatham. After education at Hove House School, Brighton, Sidney Coupland became a medical student at University College, London, where he qualified M.R.C.S. in 1871 and then held residency posts. At Middlesex Hospital, he became in 1873 pathologist, in 1875 assistant physician, in 1879 full physician, and in 1891 dean of the medical school.

Coupland received his higher medical doctorate M.D.Lond. in 1874 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1880. Perhaps his most important publications were the 6 reports, published from 1889 to 1896, on smallpox outbreaks; the reports were prepared for the 1889 Royal Commission on Vaccination. and the Harveian Oration (Observations on the Statistics in Regard to Mental Disorders and their Occurrence) in 1915.

In 1880 in Bath, Somerset, he married Bessie Potter. Their only surviving son was Reginald Coupland, who became a professor of history at the University of Oxford.