Sir Dr. Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Bt of Wimpole Street KCVO KStJ FRCP b. 25 Sep 1842 Walthamstow, , Essex, England d. 15 Dec 1925 10 Cleveland Square, Bayswater, , London, England: The Maw family

1842 - 1925 (83 years)

Name	Richard Douglas Powell
Prefix	Sir Dr.
Suffix	1st Bt of Wimpole Street KCVO KStJ FRCP
Birth	25 Sep 1842	Walthamstow, , Essex, England [1]
	https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sir-Dr-Richard-Douglas-Powell-1st-Bt/29693763 First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Birth year 1842 Birth date 25 Sep 1842 Baptism year 1842 Baptism date 26 Oct 1842 Father's first name(s) Scott Father's last name Powell Father's occupation Gent Mother's first name(s) Eliza Place Walthamstow, St Mary the Virgin Residence Walthamstead County Essex Country England Archive Essex Record Office Archive ref WF/W83/1 RBp 5 Record set Essex Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, United Kingdom Â© Ada Brady 2019 Prefix Sir Dr First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Suffix 1st Bt Birth year 1842 Birth date 25 Sep 1842 Death year 1925 Death date 15 Dec 1925 Cemetery Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery City Beckenham County London Country England Image link https://billiongraves.com/grave/Richard-Douglas-Powell/29693763 Record set England Billion Graves Cemetery Index Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from England, United Kingdom copyright BillionGraves http://www.billiongraves.com 2012
Christening	26 Oct 1842	St Mary The Virgin, Walthamstow, , Essex, England
	First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Birth year 1842 Birth date 25 Sep 1842 Baptism year 1842 Baptism date 26 Oct 1842 Father's first name(s) Scott Father's last name Powell Father's occupation Gent Mother's first name(s) Eliza Place Walthamstow, St Mary the Virgin Residence Walthamstead County Essex Country England Archive Essex Record Office Archive ref WF/W83/1 RBp 5 Record set Essex Baptisms Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Parish Baptisms Collections from England, United Kingdom Â© Ada Brady 2019
Gender	Male
Biography	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Douglas Powell Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Baronet, KCVO, KStJ, FRCP (25 September 1842 – 15 December 1925) was a British physician, Physician Royal to Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V, president of various medical societies, etc.[1][2][3][4] Powell studied medicine at University College, London, becoming house physician there under Dr William Jenner. He later worked at Brompton Hospital, the Marylebone Dispensary, the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, Charing Cross Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. [5] In 1887 he was appointed as physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, later succeeding Jenner as physician-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria, Edward VII and George V.[5] He was elected President of the Medical Society of London (1891), the Clinical Society of London (1899– 1901), the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (1904– 1906) and the Royal College of Physicians (1905– 1909). He delivered the Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1914. He was created a baronet of Wimpole Street in 1897.[5] Family Powell's elder daughter Dorothy Juliet Powell married in 1900 Edward Arthur Leadam, only son of W. Ward Leadam, MD.[6] References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sir Richard Powell, 1st Baronet. H. D. Rolleston, 'Powell, Sir Richard Douglas, first baronet (1842– 1925)', rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 5 June 2013 Sir Richard Douglas Powell (1842– 1925): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35591 'POWELL, Sir Richard Douglas', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920– 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007 accessed 5 June 2013 Sir R. Douglas Powell. Physician To The King. (Obituaries) The Times Wednesday, 16 December 1925; pg. 19; Issue 44146; col A The Late Sir Douglas Powell. (Obituaries) A correspondent. The Times Thursday, 17 December 1925; pg. 18; Issue 44147; col D "Sir Richard Douglas Powell (1842– 1925)". Retrieved 17 July 2015. "Marriages". The Times. No. 36074. London. 24 February 1900. p. 1. Baronetage of the United Kingdom New creation Baronet (of Wimpole Street) 1897– 1925 Succeeded by Douglas Powell
Occupation	Physician & Surgeon
Burial	Dec 1925	Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery, Beckenham, , Kent, England [1]
	https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sir-Dr-Richard-Douglas-Powell-1st-Bt/29693763 Prefix Sir Dr First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Suffix 1st Bt Birth year 1842 Birth date 25 Sep 1842 Death year 1925 Death date 15 Dec 1925 Cemetery Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery City Beckenham County London Country England Image link https://billiongraves.com/grave/Richard-Douglas-Powell/29693763 Record set England Billion Graves Cemetery Index Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from England, United Kingdom copyright BillionGraves http://www.billiongraves.com 2012
Death	15 Dec 1925	10 Cleveland Square, Bayswater, , London, England [1, 3]
	https://billiongraves.com/grave/Sir-Dr-Richard-Douglas-Powell-1st-Bt/29693763 First name(s) Richard D Last name Powell Gender Male Birth day - Birth month - Birth year 1842 Age 83 Death quarter 4 Death year 1925 District Paddington County London Volume 1A Page 120 Country England Record set England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from United Kingdom, England (c) brightsolid online publishing ltd Prefix Sir Dr First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Suffix 1st Bt Birth year 1842 Birth date 25 Sep 1842 Death year 1925 Death date 15 Dec 1925 Cemetery Beckenham Crematorium and Cemetery City Beckenham County London Country England Image link https://billiongraves.com/grave/Richard-Douglas-Powell/29693763 Record set England Billion Graves Cemetery Index Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from England, United Kingdom copyright BillionGraves http://www.billiongraves.com 2012
Probate	29 Jan 1926	London, , Greater London, England
	First name(s) Richard Douglas Last name Powell Death year 1925 Death date 15 Dec 1925 Probate year 1926 Probate date 29 Jan 1926 Residence town - Registry London County Middlesex Linked persons Sydney Carlyle Cockerell Country England Record set England & Wales Government Probate Death Index 1858-2019 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Civil Deaths & Burials Collections from United Kingdom, England Â© Findmypast
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Person ID	I50547	The Maw Family Tree
Last Modified	25 Mar 2023

Father	Captain Scott Powell, b. Est 1815 d. Bef 30 Oct 1873 (Age 58 years)
Mother	Eliza, b. Est 1815 d. Yes, date unknown
Family ID	F28082	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Juliet Bennett, b. Between Oct and Dec 1846, Greenwich, , Kent, England d. 18 Mar 1909, District Marylebone

Marriage 30 Oct 1873 Mountfield, , Sussex, England [4]

Children

	1. Sir Douglas Powell, 2nd Bt of Wimpole Street, b. 8 Jul 1874, Marylebone, , Middlesex, England d. 28 Feb 1932, District Chelsea (Age 57 years)
	2. Dorothy Juliet Powell, b. Abt 1877, Marylebone, , Middlesex, England d. 14 Aug 1946 (Age 69 years)
	3. Dame Evelyn Sydney Powell, b. Between Apr and Jun 1878, Marylebone, , Middlesex, England d. 20 Apr 1921, 36 Stanhope Gardens, Kensington, London, , England
	4. Lieutenant Charles Folliott Borradaile Powell, b. 19 Dec 1879, Marylebone, , Middlesex, England d. 13 Jul 1901 (Age 21 years)
	5. Captain Scott Powell, b. 10 Apr 1885, Marylebone, , Middlesex, England d. 4 Apr 1916 (Age 30 years)

Family ID F16461 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 25 Mar 2023

Family 2	Edith Mary Burke Wood d. 18 Aug 1934
Marriage	16 Oct 1917
Family ID	F16462	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	25 Oct 2017

Event Map

Death - 15 Dec 1925 - 10 Cleveland Square, Bayswater, , London, England

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Sir Richard Powell, 1st Baronet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Baronet KCVO FRCP KStJ (25 September 1842 - 15 December 1925) was a British physician, Physician Royal to Queen Victoria , King Edward VII and King George V , president of various medical societies, etc.[1][2][3][4]
He was created a baronet of Wimpole Street in 1897.
References[edit ]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sir Richard Powell, 1st Baronet .
Jump up ^ H. D. Rolleston, 'Powell, Sir Richard Douglas, first baronet (1842-1925)', rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 accessed 5 June 2013 Sir Richard Douglas Powell (1842-1925): doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/35591
Jump up ^ 'POWELL, Sir Richard Douglas', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 5 June 2013
Jump up ^ Sir R. Douglas Powell. Physician To The King. (Obituaries) The Times Wednesday, Dec 16, 1925; pg. 19; Issue 44146; col A
Jump up ^ The Late Sir Douglas Powell. (Obituaries) A correspondent. The Times Thursday, Dec 17, 1925; pg. 18; Issue 44147; col D


Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Bt. was born on 25 September 1842.¹ He was the son of Scott Powell and Eliza Meeke .² He married, firstly, Juliet Bennett, daughter of Sir John Bennett, on 30 October 1873.¹ He married, secondly, Edith Mary Burke Wood , daughter of Henry Wood , on 16 October 1917.¹ He died on 15 December 1925 at age 83.¹
Sir Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Bt. usually went by his middle name of Douglas.¹ He was educated at Streatham Grammar School, Streatham, Surrey, England .¹ He was educated at University College Hospital, London, England .¹ He graduated from London University, London, England , with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.).¹ He was Physician Extraordinary to HM Queen Victoria between 1887 and 1899.¹ He was created 1st Baronet Powell, of Wimpole Street, London [U.K.] on 5 March 1897.¹ He was Physician-in-Ordinary between 1899 and 1901.¹ He was invested as a Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London (F.R.C.P.).¹ He was Physician Extraordinary to HM King Edward II between 1901 and 1907.¹ He was President of the Royal College of Physicians, London between 1905 and 1916.¹ He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) by Aberdeen University, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland , in 1906.¹ He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England , in 1907.¹ He was Physician-in-Ordinary between 1907 and 1910.¹ He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) by Birmingham University, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England , in 1909.¹ He was Physician-in-Ordinary to HM King George V between 1910 and 1925.¹ He was deputy chairman of the Clerical, Medical and General Life Association.¹ He wrote the book On Diseases of the Lungs and Heart, published 1914.¹ He wrote the book On Advancs in Knowledge regarding the Circulation and Atrributes of the Blood since Harvey's Time.¹ He was invested as a Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.).¹ He was invested as a Knight of Grace, Sovereign Order of St John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller).¹

Sources

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[S39] Websites, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Richard_Powell,_1st_Baronet (Reliability: 3).
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[S118] England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983, (FreeBMD. England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Microfilm and microfiche of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Indexes created by the General Register Office, in London, England.), GRO Reference - District Battle - Volume 2b Page 85 (Reliability: 3).

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Sir Dr. Richard Douglas Powell, 1st Bt of Wimpole Street KCVO KStJ FRCP