| Authorised form of name | Barlow; Sir; Thomas (1845 - 1945); physician |
| Dates | 1845 - 1945 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Brantwood Fold, Edgworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, England |
| Date of birth | 04 September 1845 |
| Place of death | 10 Wimpole Street, London, England |
| Date of death | 15/01/1945 |
| Occupation | physician |
| Research field | Pathology |
| Medicine |
| Disease |
| Activity | Education:
Owens College, Manchester; MD (Lond); Hon DSc (Vict); Hon LLD (Aberdeen)
Career:
Appointed house physician to Sir William Jenner (FRS 1864) at University College Hospital (1870); appointed medical registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London (1874); then assistant physician (1875); promoted to full physician (1885) from which position he retired in 1899; assistant physician at Charing Cross Hospital (1875–7) and of the London Hospital (1877–80) before returning to University College Hospital in 1880 as assistant physician where he served as full physician until his retirement in 1910; held the Holme chair of medicine (1895-1907); was staff of the London Fever Hospital (1884-1888); appointed physician to the royal household (1896); physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria (1899-1901); continued to hold court appointments under Edward VII and George V.
Membership:
National Temperance League (President 1923-1930)
RCP (President 1910-1914)
Honours:
Bt 1900; KCVO 1901 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 06/05/1909 |
| Age at election | 64 |
| Proposer | Silvanus Phillips Thompson; William Matthew Flinders Petrie; Joseph Wilson Swan; Joseph Lister; Michael Foster; Jonathan Hutchinson; John Charles Dalrymple Hay; Frederick William Pavy; Robert Bellamy Clifton |
| George Carey Foster; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Arthur William Rucker; John Rose Bradford; John Wolfe Barry; John Gray McKendrick; William Thomson; William Crookes; Patrick Manson |
| Davi Ferrier; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; Victor Horsley; Sidney Harris Cox Martin; Frederick Walker Mott; Henry Charlton Bastian; Thomas George Bonney; Lauder Brunton; William R Gowers; John Scott Burdon Sanderson |
| Relationships | Parents: James Barlow (1821–1887) of Greenthorne, Edgworth, who established the cotton mills of Barlow and Jones at Edgworth and Bolton, and Alice (d. 1888), daughter of James Barnes, also of Edgworth.
Spouse: Ada Helen (1843–1928), daughter of Patrick Dalmahoy, writer to the signet, of Edinburgh.
Children: Sir (James) Alan Noel Barlow (1881–1968); the second was Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883–1964); and the third, Patrick Basil (1884–1917), died on the western front during the First World War; Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (4 May 1887 – 16 September 1975), with her father, she was a member of the London Survey Committee, a voluntary organisation publishing architectural surveys of the capital; Gertrude Mary Barlow (August 1888 – 22 July 1889), died in infancy. |
| Published works | RCN 26482 |
| General context | Best known for his original researches on scurvy in infants and young children.
Royal physician. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1948 vol 5 pp 159-167, plate, by T R Elliott
References:
Vanity Fair 12 April 1906 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/51683416 |
| Royal Society code | NA5906 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| VF/04 | Portrait of Sir Thomas Barlow by Sir Leslie Ward | 12 April 1906 |
| EC/1909/07 | Barlow, Sir Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/000252 | Barlow, Sir Thomas | nd |
| NLB/40/835 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 8 September 1909 |
| MC/27/16 | Letter from [Thomas] Barlow, 10 Wimpole Street, W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 11 October 1912 |
| NLB/48/456 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Barlow, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 7 July 1913 |
| NLB/48/421 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society | 4 July 1913 |
| NLB/58/444 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Barlow, FRS | 6 May 1920 |
| NLB/58/338 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Barlow, FRS | 22 April 1920 |
| NLB/58/170 | Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Thomas Barlow, FRS | 22 March 1920 |
| IM/000251 | Barlow, Sir Thomas | September 1999 |
| NLB/46/656 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir Thomas Barlow, Fellow of the Royal Society, 10 Wimpole Street, W. | 11 October 1912 |
| MC/31/10 | Letter from [Thomas] Barlow, Boswells, Wendover, Bucks, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 7 September 1916 |