Thomas Stephenson

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FCS (1864–29 October 1938) was a Scottish chemist and pharmacist. He was founder and editor of "The Prescriber", a magazine focussing on pharmacists needs.

Life

He was born in 1864 at 37 George Street in

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the son of John B. Stephenson a chemist with James Robertson & Co. He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution. He trained as a chemist and joined his father, who had set up his own business, at 48 Frederick Street. The family then moved to 8 Belford Terrace near

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. In 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Frederick Orpen Bower, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser,

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, and Leonard Dobbin. By this time he was Editor of "The Prescriber" magazine, and had a shop at 137 George Street in the city centre, and was living at 9 Woodburn Terrace, a flat in the Morningside district. In 1916 "The Prescriber" had offices at 6 South Charlotte Street off

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.The Rotarian (journal) Dec 1916 Thomas was a member of

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. He died in Edinburgh on 29 October 1938.

References

1864 births 1938 deaths Health professionals from Edinburgh Scottish pharmacists Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Scottish magazine editors 19th-century British pharmacists 20th-century British pharmacists {{UK-chemist-stub