Prof Thomas Hastie Bryce LLD FRS FSA FRSE (20 October 1862 – 16 May 1946) was a Scottish

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, medical author and archaeologist. He was Regius Professor of Anatomy at the

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1909 to 1935 and also Curator of the

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in Glasgow. He is primarily remembered for his work on human

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and comparative anatomy. His students referred to him as Tommy Bryce.

Life

Bryce was born in Dalkeith, just south of

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on 20 October 1862, the son of Dr William Bryce. He was educated at

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and then studied medicine at the

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, graduating MB, CM. In 1901 he obtained his MD from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis entitled, “Maturation of the ovum in Echinus". He became a Demonstrator in Anatomy at the newly formed Queen Margaret College in 1890. In 1892 he became a lecturer in anatomy (working under Professor William Turner) and continued this until 1909 when he was received the Anatomy chair at the University of Glasgow where he worked until 1935. During this period he was also Curator of the university's Hunterian Museum. He was a keen amateur archaeologist, submitting over 40 papers to the Society of Antiquities of Scotland. His work on the human ovum, in conjunction with Professor Teacher led to an ovum type being named the ''Teacher-Bryce Ovum'', in medical terms usually referred to as TB-1. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1898 and won its

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for 1903 to 1905. He served as the Society's Vice President 1925 to 1928. He was president of the

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1929 to 1932 and also served as president of the

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. He retired to

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and in 1945, at the end of the

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, he moved to Oxford to be with his son. He died in

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on 16 May 1946.

Publications

''The Early Development and Imbedding of the Human Ovum''
(1908)
''Quain's Anatomy Volume 1: Embryology''
(1908) *''The Book of Arran'' (1910) *''Quain's Anatomy: Bones and Joints'' (1915) *''Quain's Anatomy: Muscles'' (1923) *''The Anthropological History of the Scottish People'' (1924)

Family

In 1889 he married Mary Russell Landale Wilson (d.1934). He was the nephew of the eminent Edinburgh surgeon, James Bryce FRSE (1766–1826). He was a cousin to James Bryce, Viscount Bryce.

References

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