Theodore Acland

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

Background and early life Acland was the son of Theodore Dyke Acland and his wife Caroline Cameron Gull. He was the grandson of Sir Henry Acland, 1st Baronet and of Sir William Gull, 1st Baronet. His great-grandfather, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet (1787–1871), had been a member of parliament, one of the Devonshire Aclands, an old family. Acland had one sister, Aimee Sarah Agnes Dyke Acland, who died in infancy in 1889.

He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, King's College, Cambridge (where he was an exhibitioner), and the University of Berlin. At Cambridge, in 1912 and 1913, he took a First in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, specializing in Chemistry at Part II.

Career 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, then seconded for technical duties with the Department of Explosives Supplies and in 1915 with the Munitions Inventions Department. 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. He was then Headmaster of King Edward VI School, Norwich, from 1930 to 1943. In Who's Who, he gave his recreation as 'travelling' and his clubs as the Athenaeum and the Royal Commonwealth Society. He died on 13 October 1960, at the age of sixty-nine.