| Authorised form of name | Cobbold; Thomas Spencer (1828 - 1886); physician and helminthologist |
| Dates | 1828 - 1886 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Ipswich, Suffolk, England |
| Date of birth | 26 May 1828 |
| Place of death | 74 Portsdown Road, Paddington, London, England |
| Date of death | 20 March 1886 |
| Occupation | physician and helminthologist |
| Research field | Parasitology |
| Anatomy |
| Zoology |
| Activity | Education:
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 category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 02/06/1864 |
| Age at election | 36 |
| Proposer | John 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 |
| Relationships | Parents: 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). |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 50759
RCN 33589 |
| OtherInfo | Remembered as the most eminent British parasitologists of the nineteenth century. |
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| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1889-1890 vol 47 pp iv-v signed by J B S |
| Code | NA6066 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1864/04 | Cobbold, Thomas Spencer: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000899 | Cobbold, Thomas Spencer | nd |
| IM/000898 | Cobbold, Thomas Spencer | nd |
| MS/427/71 | Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Dr. [Thomas Spencer] Cobbold, FRS | 9 December 1880 |
| PP/6/41 | Paper, 'Notes upon the experimental breeding of Taenia echinococcus in the dog from the echinococci of man' by John Davies Thomas | 1885 |
| PP/6/42 | Paper, 'Note upon the frequent occurrence of Taenia echinococcus in the domestic dog in certain parts of Australia' by John Davies Thomas | 1885 |