William Henry Power
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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.[4] He studied at University College, London, before taking up an apprenticeship with his father. [4] He qualified MRCS and LSA after studying medicine at St Bartholomew's.[4]
Power served as Assistant Medical Officer and Medical Inspector for General Sanitary Purposes of the Local Government Board.[4] The entomologist and lecturer of medicine, John Arthur Power was an uncle.
In January 1900, Power was appointed Chief Medical Officer of England, and served as such until 1908.[4]
In 1898 Power was awarded the first Jenner Memorial Medal of the Epidemiological Society of London.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1895 and awarded their Buchanan Medal in 1907.[6] He won the Bisset Hawkins Medal from the Royal College of Physicians in 1902.[7][8]
Power was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the November 1902 Birthday Honours list,[9][10] and knighted as a Knight Commander (KCB) of the same order in 1908.[6]
Death
Power died at Holly Lodge, East Molesey, Surrey, in 1916.[11]
