Thomas Robinson Glynn (23 January 1841,

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– 12 May 1931,

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, Wales) was a British physician, pathologist, and professor of medicine at University College Liverpool (which became in 1903 the

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Education and career

After education at

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, he studied medicine at

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and in Paris. He graduated from the

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with

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in 1865 and higher MD in 1879. After his MB qualification, he obtained appointments as assistant physician to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital (located on Myrtle Street, Liverpool), physician to the

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, and demonstrator of anatomy at the

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. At the

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he became in 1871 a full physician, an appointment he held until retiring as consulting physician in 1901. Glynn was elected FRCP in 1882. Under the auspices of the

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he gave in 1903 the

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and in 1913 the

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on hysteria. During holidays, he worked on sketching and painting with

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and achieved almost a professional standard. Some of Glynn's paintings were publicly exhibited.

Family

Edward Dashpen Glynn (1801–1874), a Liverpool shipowner, was Thomas Glynn's father. On 11 April 1872 at

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, Thomas Glynn married Octavia de Paiva, who died in 1882. On 12 March 1885 in Liverpool, he married Alice Lewtas Griffin (b. 1855). There were children from both marriages. Thomas Glynn was the father of five sons and four daughters. One of his sons was Ernest Edward Glynn, F.R.C.P.

Selected publications

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References

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