Name Thomas Bryce | Role Anatomist | |
Died May 16, 1946, Oxford, United Kingdom Books On the Cairns and Tumuli of the Island of Bute - A Record of Explorations During the Season of 1903 | ||
Prof Thomas Hastie Bruce LLD FRS FSA FRSE (1862–1946) was a Scottish anatomist, medical author and archaeologist. He was Regius Professor of Anatomy at Glasgow University 1909 to 1935 and also Curator of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. He is primarily remembered for his work on human embryology and comparative anatomy. His students referred to him as Tommy Bryce
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Life
Bryce was born in Dalkeith, just south of Edinburgh on 20 October 1862, the son of Dr William Bryce.
He was educated at Edinburgh Collegiate School and then took a degree in Medicine at Edinburgh University.
He became a Demonstrator in Anatomy at the newly formed Queen Margaret College in 1890. In 1892 he became a Lecturer in Anatomy (working under Prof William Turner) and continued this until 1909 when he was given the Anatomy chair at Glasgow University where he then worked until 1935. During this period he was also Curator of the university's Hunterian Museum.
He was a keen amateur archaeologist, submitting over 40 papers to the Society of Antiquities of Scotland.
His work on the human ovum, in conjection with Professor Teacher led to an ovum type being named the Teacher-Bryce Ovum, in medical terms usually referred to as TB-1.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1898 and won their Keith Medal for 1903 to 1905 and served as their Vice President 1925 to 1928.
He was President of the Anatomical Society 1929 to 1932 and also served as President of the Glasgow Archaeological Society.
He retired to Peebles but in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, he moved to Oxford to be with his son. He died in Oxford on 16 May 1946.
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Family
In 1889 he married Mary Russell Landale Wilson (d.1934).
He was the nephew of the eminent Edinburgh surgeon, James Bryce FRSE (1766–1826).
He was a cousin to James Bryce, Viscount Bryce.