Elliott , Thomas Renton , 1877-1961 , physician

Educated Durham School and Trinity College Cambridge; George Henry Lewes Scholar in Physiology, 1904; Student then House Officer of UCH, 1906-1914; Graduated MD, 1908; MRCP Appointed to Staff of UCH, 1910; FRS, 1913; FRCP, 1915; War - joined Officers Training Corps and went to France as assistant to Sir John Bradford. Became consultant to BEF with rank of colonel. Research on morbid anatomy of gunshot wounds of thorax, 1914-1918; Twice mentioned in dispatches; returned to UCH as Consulting Physician and helped build up medical school, 1919; Member of Medical Research Council, 1939-1943; Member of Inter-departmental (Goodenough) Committee on Medical Schools, 1942; First Unit Director in University of London and first Professor of Medicine attached to the medical school at University College, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, University of London; Medical advisor to Beit memorial and Wellcome Trustees; Physiological papers mainly on the Journal of Physiology and Brain, medical papers on gunshot wounds of the chest; died, 1961.