Sir D'Arcy Power

Born in 1855, he became a prominent English surgeon and was associated with St Bartholomew's Hospital as well as the Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea. Alongside his clinical work, he built a strong reputation as a historian of medicine, especially for his writing on the development of surgery and on notable medical figures.

He contributed biographical and historical articles to major reference works, including the Dictionary of National Biography, and was known for making medical history readable as well as scholarly. That mix of practical experience and historical curiosity gave his books and essays a distinctive voice.

He was later knighted, and his long career stretched across a period of major change in British medicine before his death in 1941. Today he is remembered not only for his work as a surgeon, but also for preserving the human stories behind medical progress.