Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St.J FRS FRCP (21 February 1862 – 11 April 1947) was a

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medical doctor and senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health. He was the eldest son of Rev Arthur Charles Copeman, Vicar of St Andrew's Norwich. He was educated at

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and

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from which he graduated in 1882. He went on to undergo medical training at

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, London, qualifying in 1886. He obtained a

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MD at

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in 1890. In 1891 he became a medical inspector with the

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. In 1898, he was awarded the

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. When the Ministry of Health replaced the board in 1919, Copeman became a medical officer with the ministry, retiring in 1925. He was an authority on

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, and is credited with the development of glycerinated lymph. In 1898 he delivered the Milroy Lecture on ''Vaccination – Its Natural History and Pathology'', published as a book in the following year. and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1899. In 1903 he was elected a

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and in 1925 was awarded the

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of the

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. Following his retirement from the Ministry of Health, Copeman entered

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. He was a member of

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, where he was chairman of the public health committee, and was elected to the

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as a

Municipal Reform Party The Municipal Reform Party was a local party allied to the parliamentary Conservative Party in the County of London. The party contested elections to both the London County Council and metropolitan borough councils of the county from 1906 to 194 ...

councillor representing

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in 1934. He died in

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, in April 1947, aged 85. Copeman's son W. S. C. Copeman became a prominent

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and

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. He had married Ethel Margaret Boord, daughter of Sir Thomas William Boord. They had one son and two daughters.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Copeman, Sydney Arthur Monckton Knights of Grace of the Order of St John Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 1862 births 1947 deaths Members of London County Council People educated at Norwich School Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Municipal Reform Party politicians Members of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough Council Recipients of the Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine