Thomas Renton Elliott
Born11 October 1877
Willington, County Durham, England
Died4 March 1961 (1961-03-05) (aged 83)
Broughton Place, Peeblesshire, Scotland
NationalityBritish
EmployerUniversity College Hospital
Known forInvestigation of the chemical transmission of nerve action

Thomas Renton Elliott FRS[1] (11 October 1877 – 4 March 1961) was a British physician and physiologist. [2][3][4]

Biography

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, London.

Elliot married Martha McCosh in 1918. They lived in Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, London[5] and had three sons and two daughters. One son was judge Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott.[5]

In 1935, Elliott and his wife commissioned the architectural practice of Rowand Anderson, Paul & Partners to build their house Broughton Place in the Scottish Borders. It was designed by Basil Spence, then a partner in the firm, who worked closely with Mrs Elliott to meet her requirements. Work began in 1936 and was completed in 1938.

Elliott retired in 1939 and died at Broughton House in 1961.[5]

Awards and memberships

References

  1. 1 2 Dale, H. H. (1961). "Thomas Renton Elliott. 1877-1961". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7: 52–74. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1961.0005.
  2. ↑ "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33006. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "Obituary". British Medical Journal. 1 (5227): 752–754. 11 March 1961. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.5227.752. PMC 1953340.
  4. ↑ Pickering, G. (1962). "Thomas Renton ELLIOTT, 1877-1961". Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. 75: 21–23. PMID 13943325.
  5. 1 2 3 Gazetteer for Scotland, Prof. Thomas Renton Elliott.
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