Author: Thomas, William John
Biography:
THOMAS, William John (1805-76: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 6 July 1805 and baptised on 7 Dec. at Christ’s Church, Liverpool, the son of John Thomas, customs officer, and Nanny Greenwood, who had married there on 7 Dec. 1800. Details of his early education are not known but he was admitted as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS), and Licenciate of the Society of Apothecaries (LSA) on 21 Dec. 1827. Between 1849 and 1854 he published three papers on aspects of cholera, two in the Lancetand one in the Medical Times, in response to the outbreaks in Liverpool 1848-9 and 1853-4. He practised from 1827 to at least 1851 at Cazneau Street, Liverpool. In 1861 he was recorded as a surgeon in Kirkdale and by 1871 was no longer practising. He died on 18 Jan. 1876 at 9 Breeze Lane, Walton-on-the-Hill, Liverpool, and was buried on 21 Jan. at Liverpool Cemetery, Anfield, leaving an estate of under £3,000. He never married. For reasons unknown, only the first volume of The Achillead (1830), a continuation of “the divine tale Troy” (Preface), which was printed in Liverpool by Thomas Burgeland Johnson, appeared. (ancestry.co.uk 1 Feb. 2024; findmypast.co.uk 1 Feb. 2024; List of the Fellows and Members of the Royal College of Surgeons [1845], 190; The Medical Directory for 1870, 590; Liverpool Mercury 19 Jan. 1876; GRO death cert.) AA