Dr Thomas Williamson

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 ...

FRCSE (1815–1885) was a Scottish surgeon at

Leith Hospital Leith Hospital was situated on Mill Lane in Leith, Edinburgh, and was a general hospital with adult medical and surgical wards, paediatric medical and surgical wards, a casualty department and a wide range of out-patient services. It closed in 1 ...

and Medical Officer of Health for North Edinburgh.

Life

He was born in

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in 1815. He studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating MB ChB and receiving his doctorate (MD) in 1835. He disappears from records until 1845 when he appears as a doctor in Leith living at first 51 then 35 Charlotte Street. During this period he became senior surgeon at

and remained in this role for over thirty years. He also oversaw the Leith Hospital for Female Incurables (an asylum opposite the hospital) and served as Leith's first Medical Officer of Health. In 1857 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposer was Peter David Handyside. In 1860 he was living at 40 Quality Street in Leith. In 1885 he was one of the Fellows who proposed James Pringle, a near neighbour and Provost of Leith, as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He died on 30 December 1885 at 53 Charlotte Street in Leith, close to Leith Links (the street is now called Queen Charlotte Street).Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory 1885

References

1815 births 1885 deaths People from Greenock Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish surgeons Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-med-bio-stub