Thomas Hugh Milroy
Professor Thomas Hugh Milroy FRSE was a Scottish physiologist and organic chemist.Life
He was born in Kirkcowan in Wigtownshire, the eldest son of John Milroy. He was educated locally then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He undertook postgraduate studies in Germany at Berlin and Marburg then returned to Edinburgh as assistant to Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.
In 1898 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Rutherford, Sir William Turner, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser and Alexander Crum Brown.
In 1902 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at Queen's College, Belfast and he got his younger brother to join him as a lecturer. He later became Professor of Biochemistry.
He retired back to Scotland in 1935.
He died in North Berwick on 20 March 1950. He did not marry and had no children.Publications
