Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet, (4 November 1845 – 12 January 1945) was a British royal

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, known for his research on infantile

scurvy Scurvy is a deficiency disease (state of malnutrition) resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, fatigue, and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, anemia, decreased red blood cells, gum d ...

Early life

Barlow was the son of a

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manufacturer and Mayor of Bolton, James Barlow (1821–1887). The family were well known as philanthropists in their home village of

Edgworth Edgworth is a small village in the civil parish of North Turton, in the borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is between Broadhead Brook on the west (expanded artificially to form the Wayoh Reservoir) and Quarlton Brook in t ...

where they funded charities connected with the

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church including the

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. He studied as an

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at Manchester and London.

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(UCL)

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(BM) in 1873 and

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(MD) 1874.

Career

He became a registrar at

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, and later a

and in 1899 a

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. He was

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at the UCL from 1895 to 1907, initially of paediatrics and later of

clinical medicine Medicine is the science and Praxis (process), practice of caring for patients, managing the Medical diagnosis, diagnosis, prognosis, Preventive medicine, prevention, therapy, treatment, Palliative care, palliation of their injury or disease, ...

. In 1883, he showed that infantile scurvy was identical with adult scurvy. ''Barlow's disease'' – infantile scurvy – is named after him. He was

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and attended her on her death, and to Kings

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and

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. He was knighted as a

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in March 1901, and in February 1902 he was created a

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, of Wimpole Street in St Marylebone in the County of London. He was President of the

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from 1910–1914 and delivered their Harveian Oration in 1916 on the subject of ''Harvey, The Man and the Physician''. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the

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in 1918. Barlow received the

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(D.Sc.) from the

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in February 1902, in connection with the 50th jubilee celebrations of the establishment of the university. In 1904, he was listed honorary medical staff at

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Marriage and children

Barlow married Ada Helen Dalmahoy, daughter of Patrick Dalmahoy WS, on 28 December 1880. They had the following children: * Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Bt. (1881–1968), who married Emma Nora Darwin, the granddaughter of

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(see

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). * Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883–1964) * Patrick Basil Barlow (23 October 1884 – 18 January 1917), killed in the

First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

* Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (4 May 1887 – 16 September 1975), died unmarried - see '' Re Barlow's Will Trusts''. With her father, she was a member of the London Survey Committee, a voluntary organisation publishing architectural surveys of the capital. * Gertrude Mary Barlow (August 1888 – 22 July 1889), died in infancy

Death and legacy

He died 12 January 1945Harvard Alumni Bulletin - Volume 47, Issue 13 - Page 416 at 10

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aged 99. Barlow's papers are preserved in the archive of the

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References

External links

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Sir Thomas Barlow at UCL

AIM25: Wellcome Library: Barlow, Sir Thomas (1845–1945)
at www.aim25.ac.uk

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British paediatricians Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order People from Edgworth Honorary medical staff at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers