Guy Theodore Wrench (3 February 1877 – 8 January 1954) was a British agronomist, nutritionist, and physician. He was a pioneer of the organic movement.
Biography
Wrench was educated at Repton School. He graduated M.B., B.S. in 1903 and M.D. in 1904 from London University.Wrench, Peter Yorke. (1991). The Wrench Tribes: A Comprehensive History of the Wrench Family. P. Y. Wrench. p. 226 He had several years experience of agrobiology in India. Wrench was Assistant Master of Rotunda Hospital.Browne, O'Donel Thornley Dodwell. (1947). The Rotunda Hospital, 1745-1945. E. & S. Livingstone. p. 72
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.Conford, Philip. (2001). The Origins of the Organic Movement. Floris Books. p. 237. Reed, Matthew. (2010). Rebels for the Soil: The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement. Earthscan. p. 38. The book has been described as a "classic of the early organic movement." It was dedicated to Lord Northbourne. In 1939, Wrench published an article in the British Medical Journal on soil health and how it relates to human health.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.
Wrench communicated with other early organic pioneers in Britain including Albert Howard and Gerard Wallop. He died at his home in Karachi, Pakistan.
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
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)