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Authorised form of nameFraser; Sir; Thomas Richard (1841 - 1920)
Dates1841 - 1920
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCalcutta, India
Date of birth05 February 1841
Place of deathEdinburgh
Date of death04/01/1920
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh
ActivityEducation:
University of Edinburgh. MD (1862)
Career:
Assistant, Materia Medica department, University of Edinburgh; Assistant Physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh (1869-1874); Examiner in Materia Medica to the University of Edinburgh; Professor of Materia Medica, University of Edinburgh (1877-1917); Physician, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh (1878-1917); Chairman, Indian Plague Commission (1898)
Honours:
Kt 1902
Memberships:
FRSE; FRCPE; Therapeutical Society of Paris (Corresponding)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1877
RelationshipsSon of John Richard Fraser of Gailing Hall, Roxburgh
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1921 vol 92 pp xi-xvii, plate, signed by J T C
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/61005113
CodeNA6459
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RR/18/135Referee's report by Charles James Martin, on a paper 'The action of the venom of Echis carinatus' by Thomas Richard Fraser and James A GunnFebruary 1911
NLB/7/1033Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society19 June 1893
NLB/7/637Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society27 March 1893
RR/17/284Referee's report by Frederick Gowland Hopkins, on a paper 'The action of the venom of Sepedon haemachates of South Africa' by Thomas Richard Fraser and James A GunnAugust 1908
RR/15/167Referee's report by Thomas Richard Fraser, on a paper 'The pharmacology of pseudaconitine and japaconitine considered in relation to that of aconitine' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland DunstanJuly 1901
RR/15/169Referee's report by Thomas Richard Fraser, on a paper 'The pharmacology of pyraconitine and methylbenzaconine considered in relation to their chemical constitution' by John Theodore Cash and Wyndham Rowland DunstanJuly 1901
RR/12/317Referee's report by Walter Holbrook Gaskell, on a paper 'Acokanthera schimperi: its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology' by Thomas Richard Fraser and Joseph Tillie[1895]
RR/16/180Referee's report by Thomas Lauder Brunton, on a paper by 'Contributions to the study of the action of sea-snake venoms' Thomas Richard Fraser and Major R H ElliotJune 1904
RR/12/316Referee's report by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, on a paper 'Acokanthera schimperi: its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology' by Thomas Richard Fraser and Joseph Tillie[1895]
NLB/17/170Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh29 July 1898
NLB/18/337Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society24 February 1899
NLB/23/2/507Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Major R H Elliot21 June 1904
NLB/29/172Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society20 July 1904
NLB/29/254Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society22 August 1904
NLB/29/743Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society5 December 1904
NLB/39/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] G [Gowlands] Hopkins, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1908
NLB/39/18Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr F [Frederick] G [Gowland] Hopkins. Fellow of the Royal Society14 November 1908
NLB/39/98Copy letter from Archibald Geikie to Sir Thomas R [Richard] Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society26 November 1908
NLB/39/45Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor S [Sidney Harris Cox] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of the Physiology Committee17 November 1908
NLB/39/281Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Thomas R Fraser21 December 1908
NLB/39/306Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir W [William] H [Henry] Power, Fellow of the Royal Society23 December 1908
NLB/40/7Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Sir Thomas R [Richard] Fraser FRS22 March 1909
NLB/46/307Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society9 July 1912
NLB/58/2Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [John Theodore] Cash, FRS28 February 1920
RR/12/312Referee's report by Thomas Richard Fraser, on a paper 'An enquiry into the nature of the vesicating constituent of croton oil' by Wyndham Rowland Dunstan and Lucy Everest Boole9 November 1895
RR/12/318Referee's report by John Scott Burdon-Sanderson, on a paper 'Acokanthera schimperi: its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology' by Thomas Richard Fraser and Joseph Tillie30 October 1895
NLB/15/851Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Lord Joseph Lister, President, Royal Society23 December 1897
RR/18/134Referee's report by Thomas Lauder Brunton, on a paper 'The action of the venom of Echis carinatus' by Thomas Richard Fraser and James A GunnFebruary 1911
RR/16/181Referee's report by Charles James Martin, on a paper by 'Contributions to the study of the action of sea-snake venoms' Thomas Richard Fraser and Major R H ElliotJune 1904
NLB/57/722Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor AR [Arthur Robertson] Cushny, FRS28 January 1920
RR/12/315Letter from Thomas Richard Fraser, to Michael Foster, regarding a paper 'Acokanthera schimperi: its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology' by Thomas Richard Fraser and Joseph Tillie27 March 1895
NLB/28/271Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society9 February 1904
NLB/28/862Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Fraser, Fellow of the Royal Society7 June 1904
EC/1877/07Fraser, Sir Thomas Richard: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/11/77Letter from Thomas R [Richard] Fraser, The Lodge, Knutsford, Cheshire, to G G [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society11 June 1877
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
AP/73/17Unpublished paper, 'Note on the attenuation and exaltation of the virulence of the organism of Texas Fever' by Alexander Edington1898
AP/71/12Unpublished paper, 'Acokanthera schimperi [arrow poison tree] of tropical East Africa: Its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology' by Thomas R [Richard] Fraser and Joseph Tillie1895
MM/16/23Copy of letter from Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society, to TR Fraser29 July 1898
AP/73/17/1Unpublished manuscript, 'Note on the attenuation and exaltation of the virulence of the organism of Texas Fever' by Alexander Edington1898
PP/21/7Paper, 'Preliminary notice on the arrow-poison of the Wa Nyika [Manyika] and other tribes of East Equatorial Africa [Kenya, Uganda], with special reference to the chemical properties and pharmacological action of the wood from which it is prepared' by Thomas Richard Fraser and Joseph Tillie1893
MC/19/306Letter from Thomas [Richard] Fraser, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society13 April 1904
MC/19/307Letter from Thomas [Richard] Fraser, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society4 June 1904
MC/19/308Letter from Thomas [Richard] Fraser, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society16 July 1904
MC/19/309Letter from Thomas [Richard] Fraser, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, London19 August 1904
MC/19/310Letter from Thomas [Richard] Fraser, 13 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society6 December 1904
NLB/39/51Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Dr C [Charles] J [James] Martin, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1908
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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