Thomas Prichard

Fellow

Date of Fellowship admission: 10/July/1855

Thomas Prichard received his medical degree from the University of Glasgow on 24 April 1844. He served as resident physician to the Abingdon Abbey Retreat, a private asylum near Northampton, and was formerly medical superintendent of the Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics. In 1847, he published 'Statistical reports of the cases of insanity treated in the public asylums of Scotland during 1845-46' in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. Prichard became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 10 July 1855 and was a member of the Glasgow Medico-Chirurgical Society.

Year of medical qualification

24/April/1844

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.