Sir Thomas James Thomson (1923-2013)

Glasgow University Medical Yearbooks, 1960-1983; photograph album, 1981-1983; photograph of RCPSG admission ceremony c.1970-1972; slides, 1984.

Thomas James Thomson was born in Airdrie in 1923. He was educated there and later at Glasgow University, from where he graduated in 1945 as Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MB, ChB). He became a Fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1949 (FRCP Glas 1964) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1981. He also became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1950 and a Fellow in 1969.

His posts included Consultant Physician and Consultant Gastro-enterologist in the University Medical Unit at Stobhill and Ruchill Hospitals in Glasgow and Honorary Lecturer in Materia Medica and Therapy at the University of Glasgow. In 1953, he became a lecturer in the Department of Materia Medica in Glasgow University until 1961 when he became honorary lecturer in the same Department. The yearbooks in this collection relate to this period of his life. He was Postgraduate Clinical Tutor for Glasgow Northern Hospitals from 1961-1980; Specialist Adviser to the Committee for General Internal Medicine for the UK 1970-1974; Secretary to the Conference of Colleges and Faculties in Scotland, 1972-1984 and Chairman of the Greater Glasgow Health Board 1987-1993. He was the Honorary Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeon of Glasgow, 1965-1973, and President from 1982-1984. He has produced many publications concerned with Materia Medica, Clinical Pharmacology and Gastroenterology. He was knighted in 1991.

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Photocopies of papers and articles RCPSG/P4.