Thomas Barlow (medicine)

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Sir Thomas Barlow, 1st Baronet, KCVO FRS FRCP (November 4, 1845–January 15, 1945) was a British royal physician.

Barlow was the son of a Lancashire cotton manufacturer, James Barlow (1821-1887). He studied as an undergraduate at Manchester and London. University College London (UCL) Bachelor of Medicine (BM) in 1873 and Doctor of Medicine (MD) 1874. He became a registrar at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and later a physician and in 1899 a consultant. He was professor at the UCL from 1895 to 1907, initially of paediatrics and later of clinical medicine.

He was Royal Physician to Queen Victoria and attended her on her death, and to King Edward VIII and King George V. Barlow's disease is named after him.

He married Ada Helen Dalmahoy, daughter of Patrick Dalmahoy, on 28 December 1880. They had the following children:

• Sir James Alan Noel Barlow, 2nd Bt. (1881-1968)
• Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (1883-1964)
• Patrick Basil Barlow (23 October 1884-18 January 1917), killed in the First World War [1]
• Helen Alice Dorothy Barlow (4 May 1887 -16 September 1975), died unmarried.
• Gertrude Mary Barlow (August 1888- 22 July 1889), died in infancy

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