Thomas Coke Squance FRCS

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Life

Squance was born at Bishopwearmouth, then in

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in 1852. He was the eldest son of Thomas Coke Squance, a bank manager from Frome and his wife, Elizabeth Salisbury Harrison. His father founded T. C. Squance & Sons in Durham in 1870. He was educated locally, then studied medicine at

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. He underwent practical training at St. Thomas's Hospital, London and gained his doctorate (MD) in 1877. He spent his career in Sunderland. He was Consulting Physician to Sunderland Royal Infirmary,

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to Sunderland Rural District Council and Surgeon to Sunderland Women's and Children's Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1906. His proposers for the latter were

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, Robert Hoden, Sir Byrom Bramwell, and Nicholas Henry Martin. From 1910 to 1914 he was President of the Sunderland Antiquarian Society. He died on 29 May 1923.

Family

In 1880 he married Eleanor Vint, daughter of James Vint.

Publications

*''Selections of Thomas Coke Squance'' (1899).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Squance, Thomas Coke 1852 births 1923 deaths 19th-century British medical doctors 20th-century British medical doctors British antiquarians Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland People from Sunderland Alumni of Durham University College of Medicine