Dr. Allen Thomson / [John G. M'Kendrick].
- McKendrick John Gray, 1841-1926.
- Date:
- [1884]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dr. Allen Thomson / [John G. M'Kendrick]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![Db. ALLEN THOMSON. [Read before the Society, 30th April, 1884.] Allen Thomson was bom in Edinburgh, on the 2nd of April, 1809, and he died in London, on the 21st of March, 1884, having thus nearly completed his seventy-fifth year. For nearly half a century he held a prominent position among scientific men, and for thirty years he was closely connected with Glasgow, as an eminent citizen who took his part in promoting the common well- being, and as one of the most distinguished professors in the university. Further, as for thirty-five years he was a member of our Society, and at one time its President, it is becoming and respectful to his memory that at a Meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow there should be read an account of who he was and what he did. He was the son of Dr. John Thomson, who became succes- sively Professor of Military Surgery and of Medicine and General Pathology in the University of Edinburgh, and of Margaret, the third daughter of John Millar, Advocate, who was Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow in the latter half of last century (from 1761 to 1801). Allen Thomson wrote a biographical notice of his father,* from which we learn that his grandfather was a silk weaver, who came from Kinross, where at one time he was rather prosperous in the world. Adverse circumstances compelled his grandfather to settle in Paisley, where for many years he had a struggle in rearing his family. John Thomson, one of the sons (born 17G5—died 1846), was apprenticed to his father's trade, but, like many a Scotch youth, he loved learning, and strove * John Thomson's Life of Cullcn, 2nd edition, 185!),](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21722213_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
