Thomas Hugh Milroy

Prof Thomas Hugh Milroy FRSE (1869-1950) was a Scottish physiologist and organic chemist.

Life

He was born in Kirkcowan in Wigtownshire, the eldest son of John Milroy. He was educated locally then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University. He did postgraduate studies in Germany at Berlin and Marburg then returned to Edinburgh as assistant to Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.[1]

In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Rutherford, Sir William Turner, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser and Alexander Crum Brown.[2]

In 1902 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at Queen's College, Belfast and he got his younger brother to join him as a lecturer. He later became Professor of Biochemistry.[3]

He retired back to Scotland in 1935.

He died in North Berwick on 20 March 1950. He did not marry and had no children.

Publications

  • Textbook of Practical Physiological Chemistry (with his brother John Alexander Milroy) (1904)

References

  1. ↑ "OBITUARY notice: Thomas Hugh Milroy, 1870-1950". Biochem J. 47: 385. 1950. PMC 1275229. PMID 14800919.
  2. ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  3. ↑ http://www.biochemj.org/content/47/4/385


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