Guy T. Wrench

Guy Theodore Wrench (1877 to 1954) was a British agronomist, nutritionist and physician and a pioneer of the organic movement. Educated at Repton School, he graduated M.B., B.S. in 1903 and M.D. in 1904 at London University, had several years of experience of agrobiology in India and served as Assistant Master of the Rotunda Hospital. His best known book, The Wheel of Health (1938), studied the nutritional research of Sir Robert McCarrison and the Hunza people and has been called a classic of the early organic movement. In 1939 he published an article in the British Medical Journal on soil health and its relation to human health, and he corresponded with other early organic pioneers in Britain including Albert Howard and Gerard Wallop. His other books include The Restoration of the Peasantries (1939) and Reconstruction by Way of the Soil (1946), and he died at his home in Karachi.