Theodore Dyke Acland

Theodore Dyke Acland (1851 to 1931) was an English physician, surgeon and author, the third son of Sir Henry Wentworth Acland and Sarah Cotton. Born at Killerton in Devon, he was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford, and also studied at Leipzig, Berlin and St Thomas' Hospital, taking his Oxford MD in 1883. That year the Foreign Office sent him to deal with a cholera outbreak in Egypt, and he went on to serve as Principal Medical Officer of the Egyptian Army, earning the Order of the Medjidie. Elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1889, he became physician to St Thomas' Hospital in 1893 and later consulting physician and governor there and at the Royal Brompton Hospital. From 1900 he was Medical Adviser to the Sudan government and chose its medical staff. His publications included a collection of the writings of his father-in-law Sir William Gull (1894), and through that marriage his name entered Jack the Ripper royal conspiracy theories.