| Authorised form of name | Lashley; Thomas (- 1807); physician |
| Dates | - 1807 |
| Place of death | Great James Street, Bedford Row |
| Date of death | 08 February 1807 |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Research field | Medicine |
| Colic |
| Activity | Education:
University of Edinburgh, MD (1766)
Career:
Went to Barbados after marrying Rebecca Hog without the approval of their families (1767) and pursued legal action against the Hog's of Newliston for her maintenance and inheritance; medical practice in Barbados; imprisoned as a debtor in King's Bench Prison, London (15 May 1794-c1805); from his will, he was a mortgage holder for 'Yorkshire plantation' in Barbados which used enslaved people for labour
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/11/1768 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Admission fee paid by Nicholas Munckley MD FRS. Attended the Royal Society to be officially admitted in person on 25 November 1784 |
| Relationships | Married Rebecca Hog (1766) |
| PublishedWorks | Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de colica pictonum : quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate ... Gulielmi Robertson ... pro gradu doctoratus ... (Edinburgh), 1766 |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Thomson; JBO/27; UCL LBS; TNA
References:
King's (Queen's) Bench, Fleet, Marshalsea and Queen's Prisons: Miscellanea. Records of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Marshalsea prisons, Series PRIS 10. The National Archives, Kew, England
Hog, Rebecca, and Thomas Lashley. 'In the Cause, Mrs Rebecca Hog, and Thomas Lashley, Her Husband; against Thomas Hogg [sic], Esq' (Edinburgh) 1791
Will of Doctor Thomas Lashley, Doctor of Physic and Fellow of the Royal Society, PROB 11/1459/36, The National Archives, Kew, England
Stearns Raymond Phineas (1951), 'Colonial Fellows of the Royal Society of London, 1661-1788' in NR vol 8, no 2 pp 178-246
'Dr. Thomas Lashley', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146660623 [accessed 9th July 2020]
Notes:
Place, day and month of death from The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 51 and Thomas Thomson 'History of the Royal Society' |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/56498985 |
| Code | NA303 |