- Sydney Copeman
Sydney Arthur Monckton Copeman K.St.J FRS FRCP (
21 February 1862 -11 April 1947 ) was a British medical doctor and Senior Medical officer in theMinistry of Health . Emeritus Professor on Public Health, Westminster Hospital. Member of London County Council for Hampstead.He was the eldest son of Rev Arthur Charles Copeman (1824 - 1896), Vicar of St Andrew's Norwich, Hon Cannon of Norwich Cathedral, and Chairman of the Board of Management of Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was educated at Norwich School; Corpus Christi, Cambridge; and St Thomas' Hospital. He authored, in 1898 the book "Vaccination - Its Natural History and Pathology" (published in 1899) a copy of which is in the possession of his great great nephew Russell Copeman, a Canadian politician. On 12 July 1899 he married Ethel Margaret Boord, daughter of Sir
Thomas William Boord . They had one son and two daughters. The oldest wasWilliam Sydney Charles Copeman CBE TD FRCP JP (1900 - 1970). Mary Ethel Margaret Copeman (1902 - 1978) married her cousin Captain Sydney John Savage Boord RN. Katherine Joy Copeman (1904 - 1971) married Herbert Godfrey Tyrell-Evans of Buenos Aires.
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