Thomas Mayo

Who was Thomas Mayo?

Thomas Mayo was a British physician.

He was born in London, the son of John Mayo, MD. After three years of private tuition and eighteen months at Westminster School, he was again privately tutored for Oriel College, Oxford, where he qualified MB in 1815 and MD in 1818. He took over his father's successful practice in Tunbridge Wells, but in 1835 removed to London where he acted for many years as physician at the Marylebone Infirmary.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1819 and delivered their Lumleian lectures in 1839 and 1842, their Harveian oration in 1841, and their Croonian Lecture in 1853. From 1857 to 1862 he was president of the college.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1835.

He died in 1871 in Corsham, Wiltshire.