D'Arcy Power
| Sir D'Arcy Power | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 November 1855 Pimlico, London |
| Died | 18 May 1941 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Surgeon |
| Known for | Various writings on the history of medicine |
Sir D'Arcy Power, KBE, FRCS, FSA (11 November 1855 in Pimlico, London - 18 May 1941) was a British surgeon, medical historian, and contributor of some 200 articles on famous surgeons and other related figures to the Dictionary of National Biography.
The eldest son of a six boys and five girls, D'Arcy was born on 11 November 1855 at 3 Grosvenor Terrace, Pimlico, in London, the son of Henry Power, himself a surgeon. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and entered New College, Oxford, before transferring to Exeter College. Though he wanted to be a physiologist, he ended up following his father into becoming a surgeon (at St. Bartholomew's Hospital). In this vein, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1883, serving as a member of its council from 1912 to 1928, and being its vice-president for the years 1921 and 1922. He gave the Bradshaw Lecture for 1918, the Vicary lecture for 1920, and delivered the Hunterian oration in 1925. He was variously also the Mitchell Banks Memorial Lecturer in 1933; a member of the executive committee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund; President of the Medical Society of London; President of the Harveian Society of London and President of the Section of the History of Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1926 to 1928. Power also both taught and examined in medicine and wrote textbooks and articles for a number of medical journals.
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