Thomas Goodall Nasmyth
Dr Thomas Goodall Nasmyth
Life
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He was born in Auchterderran in Fife on 28 February 1855 the son of Isabella Chisholm and her husband, James A. Nasmyth.[2] who owned the Fife Coal Company. He graduated MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1876. In 1886 he gained a Diploma in Public Health (DPH) from the University of Cambridge. He gained his DSc from the University of Edinburgh in 1887[3]
In 1887 he was elected a
In 1889 he became Fife's first
In 1916 he was living at 27 Palmerston Place in Edinburgh's West End and also noted as having property, Torrie House in Newmills, Fife.[8] He retired to Edinburgh and died at his home, Canaan Lodge [9] on 16 January 1937. He was cremated at Warriston Crematorium, his ashes being buried in Dean Cemetery. He was an early subscriber to the development of an Edinburgh Crematorium.[10] The grave lies on the main east–west path of the first northern extension, slightly to the south-west of the central obelisk. He is buried with his wife and daughter Jenny McKillop (1883-1917) and Violet Nicol Nasmyth née Denny (1859-1941).
Publications
- Hints about the Prevention of Consumption (1899)
- Milk-borne Diseases (1899)
- Report on Methods of Sewage Purification (1900)
- The Kingdom: Its Characteristics and Distinguished Sons (1922) – A history of Fife
- Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary Conditions of the County of Fife
- A Manual of Public Health
- The Geographical Distribution of Cancer in Scotland
- Air of Coal Mines
Positions of Note
- Deputy Lieutenantof Edinburgh
- Justice of the Peace for Fife
- Director of the Fife Coal Company[11]
- Director of the Commercial Bank of Scotland
- Director of the Highland and Agricultural Society
- Director of the Scottish National Housing Company Ltd.
- Chairman of the Royal Maternity Hospital and Simpson Maternity Hospital
- Convenor of the Deaconess Hospital Board
- Board Member for the Royal Dick Veterinary College
- Board Member of the Animal Diseases Research Association of Scotland
- President of the Scottish Branch of the Medical Officers of Health Association
- Town Councillor for Morningside, Edinburgh 1921 to 1929
- Councillor to the British Medical Association 1906 to 1910
References
- ^ Hewitt, Judith (2 June 2021). "Worker of the Week: Thomas Goodall Nasmyth". Devils Porridge Museum. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ "FamilySearch". FamilySearch.
- hdl:1842/24193.
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X.
- ^ "Obituary - Thomas Goodall Naysmith MD DSc". The British Medical Journal. 30 January 1937. p. 248.
- ^ Watson Wemyss, Herbert Lindesay (1933). A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society. T&A Constable, Edinburgh.
- ^ Minute Books of the Harveian Society. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Nasmyth, Thomas Goodall". smsec.rcpe.ac.uk.
- ^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Edinburgh, 43 Canaan Lane, Canaan Lodge (125416)". Canmore. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ISBN 978-94-6209-308-9. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ "Fife Coal Company - Scottish Mining Website". www.scottishmining.co.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2021.