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Authorised form of name	Brodie; Thomas Gregor (1866 - 1916); physiologist
Dates	1866 - 1916
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Northamptonshire, England
Date of birth	08 February 1866
Place of death	Hampstead, London, England
Date of death	20/08/1916
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Hampstead Cemetery
Occupation	physiologist
Research field	Comparative anatomy
	Medicine
	Physiology
Activity	Education: King's College School; St John's College, Cambridge; King's College London MD. Career: House Physician at King's College Hospital (1891); Demonstrator on Physiology, King's College London (1891-1894); Lecturer on Biology, King's College London (1891-1894); Evening Class Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy, King's College London (1891-1894); Evening Class lecturer on Animal Biology, King's College London (1894-1895); Professor of Physiology at the University of Toronto (1908); Canadian Army Medical Corps; Captain (1916); died suddenly of heart failure. Memberships: Fellow of the Chemical Society FKC MRCS LRCP
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	05/05/1904
Age at election	38
Proposer	Francis Gotch; John Burdon Sanderson; John Scott Haldane; Edward Albert Schafer; Frederick William Pavy; John Gray McKendrick; Charles Scott Sherrington; Philip Henry Pye-Smith
Proposer	William Dobinson Halliburton; Ernest Henry Starling; Frederick Walker Mott; Augustus Desire Waller; John Newport Langley; Gerald Francis Yeo
RSActivity	Lectures: Croonian 1911
Relationships	Parents: Alexander Brodie and Sarah Palmer. Spouse: Alice (née Sims) Children: T/Lt Hugh Victor Brodie, R.N.V.R. 1899 – 6 December 1941
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Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll;Who Was Who; O'Connor, W. J. British Physiologists 1885-1914: A Biographical Dictionary; King's College London War Memorials [URL: https://kingscollections.org/warmemorials/kings-college/memorials/brodie-thomas-grigor; last accessed: 14/02/2024]; Victorian Lives, King's Collections [URL: https://kingscollections.org/victorianlives/a-c/brodie-thomas-grigor; last accessed: 14/02/2024] Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series B 1919-1920 vol 91 pp xxviii-xxx signed by W D H Notes: DSB checked this far.
Code	NA1346

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
NLB/36/256	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Messrs Harrison & Sons	3 October 1907
RR/17/247	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'Reciprocal innervation in vaso-motor reflexes and the action of strychnine and of chloroform thereon' by William Maddock Bayliss	April 1908
NLB/14/693	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	29 April 1897
RR/19/20	Referee's report by Ernest Henry Starling, on a paper 'On changes in the glomeruli and tubules of the kidney accompanying activity' by Thomas Gregor Brodie and J J Mackenzie	[December 1912]
RR/19/19	Referee's report by Ernest Henry Starling, on the Croonian Lecture 'A new conception of the glomerular function' by Thomas Gregor Brodie	[December 1912]
RR/16/281	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'Changes observable in the liver cells during digestion and their relation to hepatic secretion' by Edward William Wace Carlier	March 1905
NLB/16/128	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr T G Brodie, Physiological Department, St Thomas' Hospital, S.E.	7 January 1898
NLB/15/66	Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Dr Thomas Gregor Brodie [Fellow of the Royal Society] and S W F Richardson	18 June 1897
NLB/16/18	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr T G Brodie, [Fellow of the Royal Society], The Medical School, St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, S.E.	13 January 1898
NLB/15/458	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Thomas Gregot Brodie [Fellow of the Royal Society], The Medical School, St Thomas's Hospital, Albert Embankment, S.E.	7 October 1897
NLB/16/343	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr T Gregor Brodie, Physiological Department, St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, S.E.	21 March 1898
NLB/17/83	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Thomas Gregor Brodie, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	13 July 1898
NLB/18/93	Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Dr T G Brodie, physiological Department, St Thomas' Hospital, S.E.	13 January 1899
NLB/18/53	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr T Gregor Brodie, Physiological Department, St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, S.E.	6 January 1899
NLB/28/783	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]	19 May 1904
NLB/30/842	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	30 May 1905
NLB/35/452	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 June 1907
NLB/35/632	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	21 June 1907
NLB/36/419	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 October 1907
NLB/36/516	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	8 November 1907
NLB/37/544	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	3 April 1908
NLB/36/865	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Sidney Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Sectional Committee	6 January 1908
NLB/37/371	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney Harris Cox] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society	10 March 1908
NLB/44/358	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie FRS	27 June 1911
NLB/43/168	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society, Toronto	[November 1910]
NLB/44/325	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie FRS	17 June 1911
NLB/44/282	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie FRS	8 June 1911
NLB/48/138	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Thomas Gregor] Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	23 May 1913
NLB/43/646	Copy letter from John Rose Bradford, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 February 1911
NLB/44/619	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie FRS, 12 Fellows Road, NW	2 October 1911
NLB/46/237	Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	28 June 1912
NLB/45/569	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor T [Thomas] G [Gregor] Brodie FRS	20 March 1912
NLB/48/158	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Thomas Gregor] Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	26 May 1913
NLB/50/299	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor [Thomas Gregor] Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	11 June 1914
RR/17/133	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'The time taken in passing the synapse in the spinal cord of the frog' by Florence Buchanan	[July 1907]
NLB/53/432	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Thomas Gregor] Brodie, FRS	08 August 1916
RR/19/21	Referee's report by Ernest Henry Starling, on a paper 'On cantharidin nephritis' by Thomas Gregor Brodie and J J Mackenzie	[December 1912]
RR/13/170	Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'A study of the phenomena and causation of heat-contraction of skeletal muscle' by Thomas Gregor Brodie and S W F Richardson	9 March 1897
RR/17/134	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'The rate of the assumption of chloroform by the blood during anæsthesia' by George A Buckmaster and J A Gardner	[March 1907]
RR/13/171	Referee's report by Augustus Desire Waller, on a paper 'A study of the phenomena and causation of heat-contraction of skeletal muscle' by Thomas Gregor Brodie and S W F Richardson	19 April 1897
RR/17/136	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'Function of the red corpuscles in chloroform anæsthesia' by George A Buckmaster and J A Gardner	[March 1907]
EC/1904/01	Brodie, Thomas Gregor: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000583	Brodie, Thomas Gregor	nd
RR/17/148	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'A contribution to the study of the mechanism of respiration, with especial reference to the action of the vertebral column and diaphragm' by J F Halls Dally	[December 1907]
RR/17/310	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a paper 'The glycogenic changes in the placenta and the foetus of the pregnant rabbit - a contribution to the chemistry of growth' by J Lockhead and W Cramer	January 1908
RR/17/321	Referee's report by Thomas Gregor Brodie, on a report 'Diptheria antitoxin' by John Mellanby	June 1908
NLB/43/91	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Gregor Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society	4 November 1910
NLB/43/618	Copy telegram from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to [Thomas Gregor] Brodie, Fellow of the Royal Society, Toronto	[February 1911

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