Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, (23 March 1833 – 1 October 1909) was an eminent British

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Life

Smith was the sixth son of Benjamin Smith, a London goldsmith, by his wife Susannah, daughter of Apsley Pellatt. He was educated at

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between 1844 and 1850. In 1851 he became an apprentice to

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and in August 1854 he became House Surgeon at

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. He subsequently worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital and from 1858 to 1861 Smith was Assistant Surgeon at the Great Northern Hospital. In September 1861, he was elected Assistant Surgeon at Great Ormond Street. In June 1868 he was appointed Surgeon and in November 1883 he resigned and was made Consulting Surgeon. Smith served on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1880 to 1900, having been elected in 1858, and was Vice-President in 1887-1888 and 1890-1891. He became Surgeon Extraordinary to

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in 1895 in succession to Sir William Savory. He was invested as a

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in 1901, having been created a

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, of Stratford Place in London, in 1897. He served as honorary Serjeant-Surgeon to

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from 1901 until his death in 1909. He married on 27 August 1862 Ann Eliza, the second daughter of Frederick Parbury, an Australian by birth. She died on 9 February 1879, shortly after the birth of their ninth child.THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND, ''Smith, Sir Thomas, Bart (1833 - 1909)'' (21 February 2013) http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E003607b.htm (Accessed 21 April 2015) Their eldest son was the surgeon

Rudolph Smith Sir Thomas Rudolph Hampden Smith, 2nd Baronet, CBE, FRCS (24 January 1869 – 25 June 1958) was a British surgeon. Smith was the son of the eminent surgeon Sir Thomas Smith, 1st Baronet, of Stratford Place, and his wife Ann Eliza (née Parb ...

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* * 1833 births 1909 deaths People educated at Tonbridge School English surgeons Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{England-med-bio-stub