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John Thomson
Fellow
Date of Fellowship admission: 3/August/1830
John Thomson began his medical training as an apprentice in 1785 before studying at the universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. While in Edinburgh he became assistant apothecary at the Royal Infirmary in 1790 and president of the Medical Society from 1791 to 1792. He studied in London under John Hunter and returned to Edinburgh in 1793, becoming a Fellow of the College of Surgeons. In 1800 he was appointed one of the surgeons to the Royal Infirmary and began teaching surgery. In 1804 he was appointed to the new professorship of surgery at the College of Surgeons and in 1806 became Professor of Military Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He received his MD from King's College, Aberdeen, in 1808. Thomson later helped found the Edinburgh New Town Dispensary in 1815 and was appointed Professor of General Pathology at Edinburgh in 1832. He served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1834 to 1836.
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Year of medical qualification
11/January/1808
Date of Licence
7/February/1815
Fellowship
The main qualification issued by the College, awarded regularly since the College’s foundation. This qualification was granted based on demonstrated breadth of experience and did not require an individual to pass a certain examination.
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