Dr Arnold Whitaker Oxford 1854-1948
Co-founder of the National Society of Chiropodists
Assigned: 02.07.2020
Dr Arnold Whitaker Oxford
Dr Oxford was a founder member of the National Society of Chiropodists. He regularly served on the Executive Committee, held the position of Treasurer, and wrote the seminal chiropodial text Concise Anatomy of the Foot (1930).
Born in Keynsham and educated at Bristol Grammar School, he subsequently read theology at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating he was ordained as a priest in 1878. By 1904 he had become disillusioned with his position as a clergyman and eventually took up medicine, obtaining a medical degree and becoming a governor of Charing Cross Hospital.
Oxford met the chiropodist Ernest Runting after receiving a treatment and was very impressed with Runting’s vision for the future of the profession. Consequently, the two worked together to found the National Society and ultimately the London Foot Hospital.
He was also a prominent Freemason and co-founder of the Post Curam Otium Lodge for chiropodists in 1927.
Born in Keynsham and educated at Bristol Grammar School, he subsequently read theology at Christ Church, Oxford. After graduating he was ordained as a priest in 1878. By 1904 he had become disillusioned with his position as a clergyman and eventually took up medicine, obtaining a medical degree and becoming a governor of Charing Cross Hospital.
Oxford met the chiropodist Ernest Runting after receiving a treatment and was very impressed with Runting’s vision for the future of the profession. Consequently, the two worked together to found the National Society and ultimately the London Foot Hospital.
He was also a prominent Freemason and co-founder of the Post Curam Otium Lodge for chiropodists in 1927.