Sidney Coupland (3 December 1849 – 29 April 1930, in

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) was an English physician, specializing in pathological anatomy.

Life

He was the son of William Newton Coupland, a merchant of

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. After education at Hove House School, Brighton, Sidney Coupland became a medical student at

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, where he qualified M.R.C.S. in 1871 and then held residency posts. At

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, he became in 1873 pathologist, in 1875 assistant physician, in 1879 full physician, and in 1891 dean of the medical school. After serving as a full physician from 1879 to 1898 at

, he resigned to become one of the eleven

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and served in that capacity from 1898 to 1914, and then from 1914 to 1921 as a member of the

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. He retired in 1921. Coupland received his higher medical doctorate M.D.Lond. in 1874 and was elected F.R.C.P. in 1880. Perhaps his most important publications were the 6 reports, published from 1889 to 1896, on smallpox outbreaks; the reports were prepared for the 1889 Royal Commission on Vaccination. Coupland delivered the

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(''Anaemia'') in 1881 and the Harveian Oration (''Observations on the Statistics in Regard to Mental Disorders and their Occurrence'') in 1915. In 1880 in

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, he married Bessie Potter. Their only surviving son was Reginald Coupland, who became a professor of history at the University of Oxford.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coupland, Sidney 1849 births 1930 deaths 19th-century English medical doctors 20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of University College London Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians