Thomas Nicol Johnston

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(1870–1923) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur zoologist.

Life

He was the son of Wilhelmina Storrie (1836–1903) and Thomas Johnston (1822–1899) of Corstorphine House in western

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. He studied medicine as a mature student at the

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beginning in 1897. He graduated with an

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. From 1902 to 1907 he acted as the zoologist on John Murray and Laurence Pullar's ''Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Fresh-Water Lochs''. In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Sir John Murray, Laurence Pullar, Alexander Buchan and

John Horne John Horne PRSE FRS FRSE FEGS LLD (1 January 1848 – 30 May 1928) was a Scottish geologist. He served as president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1915 to 1919. Life Horne was born on 1 January 1848, in Campsie, Stirlingshire, the ...

. He died at

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on 6 October 1923 but is buried with his parents in

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Parish Churchyard in western Edinburgh.

Family

He was married to Emma McPherson (1876-1953). In 1917 he appears to have been involved in an antenuptial contract relating to the mental health of his daughter, Margaret Fraser Johnston to Charles Henry Adamson.The Scottish Law Reporter: 1917

References

1870 births 1923 deaths Medical doctors from Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British zoologists Scottish zoologists 20th-century Scottish medical doctors {{Scotland-scientist-stub