Sir William Henry AllchinFRCPFRSE (1846–1912) was an English physician and lecturer on comparative anatomy, physiology, pathology and medicine.[1] He was knighted in 1907.[2]
Born in Paris, William Allchin was the eldest son of a physician from Bayswater and entered University College, London to study medicine. He served as chief surgeon of the SS Great Eastern for 5 years when the ship was laying cable.[3] He graduated from University College, London as M.B. in 1871. At Westminster Hospital he became an assistant physician in 1873 and a physician in 1877 and dean from 1878 to 1883 and again from 1890 to 1893; he retired from the hospital staff in 1905. Allchin was the editor of the Manual of Medicine[4] and a contributor to Quain’s Dictionary of Medicine, Allbutt’s System of Medicine,[1] and Keating's Cyclopaedia of the Diseases of Children.[2]
On 19 August 1880, Allchin married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Holland of New York.[3]
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