Thomas Renton Elliott
Deceased Person
1877 – 1961
Who was Thomas Renton Elliott?
Thomas Renton Elliott FRS was a British physician and physiologist.
Elliott was born in Willington, County Durham, as the eldest son to retailer Archibald William Elliott and his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Renton, of Otley, Yorkshire. He studied natural sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, specialising in physiology.
He joined University College Hospital as a junior staff member in 1910, and eventually became first professor of medicine and director of the medical unit at Gower Street.
Elliot married Martha M'Cosh in 1918. They had three sons and two daughters.
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- Born
- Oct 11, 1877
Willington - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Employment
- University College Hospital
- Died
- Mar 4, 1961
Peeblesshire
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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