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Authorised form of nameCobbold; Thomas Spencer (1828 - 1886); physician and helminthologist
Dates1828 - 1886
NationalityBritish
Place of birthIpswich, Suffolk, England
Date of birth26 May 1828
Place of death74 Portsdown Road, Paddington, London, England
Date of death20 March 1886
Occupationphysician and helminthologist
Research fieldParasitology
Anatomy
Zoology
ActivityEducation:
Charterhouse School; Edinburgh; apprenticed to John Green Crosse, surgeon of Norwich (FRS 1836) MD (1852)
Career:
Curator, Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh; Prosector to John Goodsir (FRS 1846); moved to London and studied helminthology; Lecturer in Comparative Anatomy and Zoology, Middlesex Medical College (1860-1873); Swiney Professor of Geology (1868-1878); Professor of Helminthology, Royal Veterinary College; wrote papers on Entozoa.
Memberships:
FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election02/06/1864
Age at election36
ProposerJohn Hall Gladstone; Campbell De Morgan; Edward William Brayley; Lionel Smith Beale; William Benjamin Carpenter; George Bentham; Alfred Baring Garrod
James Paget; Samuel James Augustus Salter; Richard Owen; Thomas Bell; George Busk; Thomas Henry Huxley; Edwain Lankester; Philip Lutley Sclater; Thomas Rymer Jones; John Gould
RelationshipsParents: Revd Richard Cobbold (1797–1877), novelist, and Mary Anne Waller (bap. 1801, d. 1876).
Spouse: Frances Philippa Amys, daughter of John Hewitt Amys, gentleman, of Palgrave, Suffolk (19 February 1852).
Published worksRCN 50759
RCN 33589
General contextRemembered as the most eminent British parasitologists of the nineteenth century.
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SourcesSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889-1890 vol 47 pp iv-v signed by J B S
Royal Society codeNA6066
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1864/04Cobbold, Thomas Spencer: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/000899Cobbold, Thomas Spencernd
IM/000898Cobbold, Thomas Spencernd
MS/427/71Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Thomas Spencer] Cobbold, FRS9 December 1880
PP/6/41Paper, 'Notes upon the experimental breeding of Taenia echinococcus in the dog from the echinococci of man' by John Davies Thomas1885
PP/6/42Paper, 'Note upon the frequent occurrence of Taenia echinococcus in the domestic dog in certain parts of Australia' by John Davies Thomas1885
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