Sir Arthur Thomson

Sir Arthur Peregrine Thomson, 1890-1977, Professor of Therapeutics and Vice-Principal, University of Birmingham. He was born in 1890, the son of a Colonial Service officer in British Guiana. He was educated at Dulwich College and at the University of Birmingham (where he was Queen's Scholar, Ingleby Scholar and Russell Prizeman). He served in France during the First World War with the Royal Army Medical Corps, retiring with the rank of major. He was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre with star.

He returned to Birmingham after the war to join the consultant staff of the Birmingham General Hospital and built up a country-wide practice as a general physician, notably in the treatment of diabetes. His work on rheumatic fever in children led to the establishment of the Baskerville School. Other research arose from the Birmingham psittacosis epidemic in 1930; and subsequent studies included the problems of ageing and chronic sickness. He published many articles in medical journals.

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