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Thomas Goodall Nasmyth
Fellow
Date of admission as Member: 5/May/1908
Date of Fellowship admission: 4/February/1913
Thomas Goodall Nasmyth was born in Auchterderran, Fife, in 1856, the son of James A Nasmyth, owner of the Fife Coal Company. He graduated MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1889, having completed a Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge in 1886. He became the first Medical Officer of Health for Fife and was based in Cupar. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1913. He identified an early link between bovine tuberculosis and human disease in his paper 'Milk-borne Diseases' (1889). He also served as Director of the Fife Coal Company, Director of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Director of the Scottish National Housing Company, and as a representative for Edinburgh Town Council between 1921 and 1929. He died in Edinburgh in 1937.
Year of medical qualification
1889
Type of medical qualification
MD
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.