About William Henry Power
Lived 1842 – 1916 (aged 73). William Henry Power was a British physician.
Sir William Henry Power, (15 December 1842 – 28 July 1916) was a British medical doctor.
Biography William Power was born on 15 December 1842 in London, the eldest son of the surgeon William Henry Power and his wife Charlotte Smart. He studied at University College, London, before taking up an apprenticeship with his father. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and awarded their Buchanan Medal in 1907. He won the Bisset Hawkins Medal from the Royal College of Physicians in 1902.
Power was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list, and knighted as a Knight Commander (KCB) of the same order in 1908.
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Chief Medical officer for England
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William Henry Power was born on 15 December 1842 in London.
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William Henry Power died on 28 July 1916.
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William Henry Power was a physician.
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