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Sir
St Clair Thomson
MRCS
Born(1859-07-28)28 July 1859
Fahan, County Donegal, Ireland
Died29 January 1943(1943-01-29) (aged 83)
Edinburgh, Scotland
OccupationProfessor of Laryngology
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Sir St Clair Thomson (28 July 1859 – 29 January 1943) was a British surgeon and professor of laryngology.[1]

Life

Thomson was born at

Joseph Lister at King's College Hospital.[2]

Career

Thomson went on to work at

St Moritz. In the early 1890s he developed his professional interests beyond general practice and turned towards the study of laryngology. Famous laryngologists he visited in Vienna included Leopold von Schrötter and Karl Stoerk, along with the Austrian otologist Ádám Politzer. He also studied with German laryngologist Gustav Killian at Freiburg.[1]

Thomson established himself as a consultant laryngologist following his return to London in 1893. After obtaining the further qualification

First World War he was appointed a Commander of the Order of Leopold for services to Belgium. After his retirement from medical practice at King's in 1924, he held positions at the Royal College of Physicians as examiner and member of the council. He lectured on tuberculosis of the larynx, and received the 1936 Weber Parkes Medal for his tuberculosis research. Thomson also lectured and wrote on the subject of Shakespeare and medicine.[1]

Major publications that Thomson authored or co-authored included Diseases of the Nose and Throat (1911) and Cancer of the Larynx (1930). Professional societies in which he held positions included the Medical Society of London (President in 1915-16) and the British Medical Association. He was also president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1925 to 1927 and president of its History of Medicine Section from 1933 to 1935.[3]

Thomson had married in 1901, but his wife Isabella died less than five years later in 1905. Thomson never remarried. His home in

National Portrait Gallery.[4] Having settled in Scotland following wartime damage to his London home, Thomson was killed in a street accident in Edinburgh on 29 January 1943 at the age of 83.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57670. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. JSTOR 3185883
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  3. OCLC 47271565
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  4. ^ "Sir St Clair Thomson (1853–1943), Surgeon and Professor of Laryngology". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 24 December 2013.

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