Guy T. Wrench

Guy T. Wrench
Born	(1877-02-03)3 February 1877 Kingston upon Thames, England
Died	8 January 1954(1954-01-08) (aged 76) Karachi, Pakistan
Occupation(s)	Agronomist, physician

Guy Theodore Wrench (3 February 1877 – 8 January 1954) was a British agronomist, nutritionist, and physician. He was a pioneer of the organic movement.[1]

Biography

Wrench was educated at Repton School. He graduated M.B., B.S. in 1903 and M.D. in 1904 from London University.[2] He had several years experience of agrobiology in India.[3] Wrench was Assistant Master of Rotunda Hospital.[4][5]

Wrench's best known work was The Wheel of Health, a study of the nutritional research of Sir Robert McCarrison and of the Hunza people.[6][7][8] The book has been described as a "classic of the early organic movement."[9] It was dedicated to Lord Northbourne.[10] In 1939, Wrench published an article in the British Medical Journal on soil health and how it relates to human health.[11]

Wrench communicated with other early organic pioneers in Britain including Albert Howard and Gerard Wallop.[9] He died at his home in Karachi, Pakistan.[12]

Selected publications

• Rotunda Midwifery for Nurses and Midwives (1908)
• The Grammar of Life (1908)
• The Mastery of Life (1911)
• Practical Obstetrics (with E. Hastings Tweedy, 1912)
• Lord Lister: His Life and Work (1913)
• The Healthy Marriage (1916)
• Healthy Wedded Life (1923)
• A Textbook Of Domestic Medicine And Surgery (1926)
• The Causes of War and Peace (1926)
• The Wheel of Health (1938)
• The Restoration of the Peasantries (1939)
• Reconstruction by Way of the Soil (1946)

References

1. Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena (2013). "The Secret of Shangri-La: Agricultural Travels and the Rise of Organic Farming Discourse". Comparative Literature Studies. 50 (1): 108–119.
2. Wrench, Peter Yorke. (1991). The Wrench Tribes: A Comprehensive History of the Wrench Family. P. Y. Wrench. p. 226
3. Conford, Philip (1998). "A Forum for Organic Husbandry; The New English Weekly and Agricultural Policy, 1939-1949" (PDF). Agricultural History Review. 46 (2): 197–210.
4. "Notes On Books". The British Medical Journal. 1 (3350): 515–516. 1925. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3350.515. S2CID 220001342.
5. Browne, O'Donel Thornley Dodwell. (1947). The Rotunda Hospital, 1745-1945. E. & S. Livingstone. p. 72
6. C, W. Le G. (1938). "Reviewed Work: The Wheel Of Health by G. T. Wrench". The British Medical Journal. 2 (4057): 746–747.
7. Conford, Philip. (2001). The Origins of the Organic Movement. Floris Books. p. 237. ISBN 978-0863153365
8. Reed, Matthew. (2010). Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement. Earthscan. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-84407-597-3
9. Conford, Philip (2005). "Organic Society: Agriculture and Radical Politics in the Career of Gerard Wallop, Ninth Earl of Portsmouth (1898-1984)" (PDF). Agricultural History Review. 53 (1): 78–96.
10. Paull, John (2014). "Lord Northbourne, the man who invented organic farming, a biography" (PDF). Journal of Organic Systems. 9 (1): 31–53.
11. Brevik, E.C., J.J. Steffan, L.C. Burgess, and A. Cerdà. 2017. Links between soil security and the influence of soil on human health. In D. Field, C. Morgan, and A. McBratney (Eds.), Global Soil Security. Progress in Soil Science Series. Springer. pp. 261-274.
12. "Medical News". The British Medical Journal. 1 (4859): 469–470. 1954. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.4859.469. S2CID 19956393.

External links

• Guy Theodore Wrench (Online Books)
• The Wheel of Health (New edition by A Distant Mirror; paperback, ebook)
• Reconstruction by Way of the Soil (New edition by A Distant Mirror; paperback, ebook)