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|death_place = [[Beijing|Pekin]], China<ref name="Deaths1861">{{cite book |author=Stationers' Hall |title=The Monthly Record of Births, Deaths & Marriages A–Z for the Month Ending January 1, 1861 |publisher=Alfred Knowler and Mrs. Janet Taylor |location=London |date=1861 |page=121 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/The_Monthly_alphabetical_record_of_birth/DmQFAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Arthur%20Saunders%20Thomson%22&pg=PP7&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>
|death_place = [[Beijing|Pekin]], China
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|death_cause = Rupture of an abscess of the liver into the abdominal cavity<ref name="MT&G1861"/>
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|placeofburial = Russian Cemetery, [[Beijing|Pekin]], China<ref name="MT&G1861"/>
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|servicenumber = 4525<ref name="Johnstone1917">{{cite book |last=Johnston |first=William |editor-last=Howell |editor-first=Harry Arthur Leonard |title=Roll of Commissioned Officers of the Medical Service of the British Army |publisher=The University Press |location=Aberdeen |date=1917 |page=304 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Roll_of_Commissioned_Officers_in_the_Med/wMAcAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Arthur%20saunders%20thomson%22&pg=PA304&printsec=frontcover}}</ref>
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|unit = [[Royal Leicestershire Regiment|17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot]], 1838–<br />[[14th King's Hussars|14th (The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons]], 1842–<br />[[58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot]], 1847–<br />Staff, 1859–60
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|commands = [[Principal Medical Officer|PMO]], 2nd Division, British Expeditionary Force, China, 1860
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|awards = Gold Medal (thesis), Medical Faculty, University of Edinburgh, 1837<ref name="MT&G1861"/>
|awards = Gold Medal prize for MD thesis, Medical Faculty, University of Edinburgh, 1837<ref name="MT&G1861"/>
|memorials = Cenotaph, [[St John's, Edinburgh|Saint John Episcopal Graveyard]], Edinburgh, Scotland
|memorials = Cenotaph, [[St John's, Edinburgh|Saint John Episcopal Graveyard]], Edinburgh, Scotland
|alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh]]
|alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh]]
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He joined the [[British Army]] on 19 October 1838 as an assistant surgeon to the [[Royal Leicestershire Regiment|17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1839 |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |location=London |date=1839 |page=68 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/120324688}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1842 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1842 |page=168 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/105934724}}</ref> and was stationed in India with the [[14th King's Hussars|14th (The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons]] until 1847.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1847 |volume=8 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1847 |page=140 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/115639218}}</ref> There, he wrote about the epidemic of fever among his regiment during the [[monsoon]] season. Upon his return to England, he was appointed surgeon to the [[58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1848 |volume=9 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1848 |page=209 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/115646982}}</ref> and sent to New Zealand. In New Zealand he wrote extensively about disease statistics among [[Māori_people|Māori]] and European populations and climatology.<ref name="DNZB Thomson"/>
He joined the [[British Army]] on 19 October 1838 as an assistant surgeon to the [[Royal Leicestershire Regiment|17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1839 |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |location=London |date=1839 |page=68 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/120324688}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1842 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1842 |page=168 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/105934724}}</ref> and was stationed in India with the [[14th King's Hussars|14th (The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons]] until 1847.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1847 |volume=8 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1847 |page=140 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/115639218}}</ref> There, he wrote about the epidemic of fever among his regiment during the [[monsoon]] season. Upon his return to England, he was appointed surgeon to the [[58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |author-link=Henry George Hart |title=The New Army List for 1848 |volume=9 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=1848 |page=209 |url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/115646982}}</ref> and sent to New Zealand. In New Zealand he wrote extensively about disease statistics among [[Māori_people|Māori]] and European populations and climatology.<ref name="DNZB Thomson"/>


Thomson's book, ''The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, Savage and Civilized'' (1859), is generally considered to be the first scholarly history of the island country.<ref name=Boyd1999>{{cite book |last=Boyd |first=Kelly |title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA870 |access-date=1 June 2012 |year=1999 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-884964-33-6 |page=870 }}</ref>
Thomson's book, ''The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, Savage and Civilized'' (1859), is generally considered to be the first scholarly history of the island country.<ref name=Boyd1999>{{cite book |last=Boyd |first=Kelly |title=Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMC&pg=PA870 |year=1999 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-884964-33-6 |page=870 }}</ref>


He was promoted to surgeon major in 1858<ref>{{cite news |title=Hospital Staff |work=The London Gazette |date=10 December 1858 |issue=22208 |page=5386 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22208/page/5386}}</ref> and was sent back to England. A year later, he was placed in charge of the hospital steamship ''Mauritius'' and sent to China where he was in medical charge of the 2nd Division, British Expeditionary Force. He died there on 4 November 1860 and was buried in the Russian cemetery, [[Beijng|Pekin]].<ref name="DNZB Thomson"/>
He was promoted to surgeon major in 1858<ref>{{cite news |title=Hospital Staff |work=The London Gazette |date=10 December 1858 |issue=22208 |page=5386 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22208/page/5386}}</ref> and was sent back to England. A year later, he was placed in charge of the hospital steamship ''Mauritius'' and sent to China where he was in medical charge of the 2nd Division, British Expeditionary Force. He died there on 4 November 1860 and was buried in the Russian cemetery, [[Beijng|Pekin]].<ref name="DNZB Thomson"/>
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* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Art. V. On the Doctrine of Acclimatization |journal=The Madras Quarterly Medical Review |volume=2 |publisher=Union Press |location=Madras |date=1840 |pages=69–76 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/The_Madras_quarterly_medical_journal/2AQHAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22On%20the%20doctrine%20of%20acclimatization%22&pg=PA69&printsec=frontcover}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Art. V. On the Doctrine of Acclimatization |journal=The Madras Quarterly Medical Review |volume=2 |publisher=Union Press |location=Madras |date=1840 |pages=69–76 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/The_Madras_quarterly_medical_journal/2AQHAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22On%20the%20doctrine%20of%20acclimatization%22&pg=PA69&printsec=frontcover}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Article IV. Could the natives of a temperate climate colonize and increase in a tropical country and vice versa? |journal=Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay |volume= |issue=6 |location=Bombay |publisher=Medical and Physical Society of Bombay |pages=112-138 |date=1843 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Transactions/Ah-gAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA138&printsec=frontcover}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Article IV. Could the natives of a temperate climate colonize and increase in a tropical country and vice versa? |journal=Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay |volume= |issue=6 |location=Bombay |publisher=Medical and Physical Society of Bombay |pages=112-138 |date=1843 |url=https://www.google.co.nz/books/edition/Transactions/Ah-gAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA138&printsec=frontcover}}
* {{cite book |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Pukapuka ki nga Tangata Maori, hei Tohu i Ratou i te Mate Koroputaputa |location=Akarana (Auckland) |publisher=Williamson & Wilson |pages= |date=1849 |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE9444611&dps_custom_att_1=emu |via=[[National Library of New Zealand|NLNZ]]}}
* {{cite book |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=Pukapuka ki nga tangata Maori, hei tohu i a ratou i te mate koroputaputa |location=Akarana (Auckland) |publisher=Williamson & Wilson |pages= |date=1849 |url=https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE9444611&dps_custom_att_1=emu |via=[[National Library of New Zealand|NLNZ]]}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=On the Influence of the Climate of New Zealand in the Production of Disease among Emigrants from Great Britain |journal=Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal |volume=74 |issue=184 |location= |publisher= |pages=82-91 |date=1 July 1850 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800638/ |via=[[National Library of Medicine]]}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=On the Influence of the Climate of New Zealand in the Production of Disease among Emigrants from Great Britain |journal=Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal |volume=74 |issue=184 |location= |publisher= |pages=82-91 |date=1 July 1850 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5800638/ |via=[[National Library of Medicine]]}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=A Statistical Account of Auckland, New Zealand, as it was Observed During the Year 1848 |journal=Journal of the Statistical Society of London |volume=14 |issue=3 |location= |publisher= |pages=227-249 |date=September 1851 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338338?origin=crossref |via=[[JSTOR]]}}
* {{cite journal |last=Thomson |first=Arthur Saunders |title=A Statistical Account of Auckland, New Zealand, as it was Observed During the Year 1848 |journal=Journal of the Statistical Society of London |volume=14 |issue=3 |location= |publisher= |pages=227-249 |date=September 1851 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2338338?origin=crossref |via=[[JSTOR]]}}
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[[Category:58th Regiment of Foot officers]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the New Zealand Wars]]
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Revision as of 22:17, 25 June 2024

Arthur Saunders Thomson
Born(1816-12-09)9 December 1816
Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
Died4 November 1860(1860-11-04) (aged 43)
Pekin, China[1]
Cause of deathRupture of an abscess of the liver into the abdominal cavity[2]
Buried
Russian Cemetery, Pekin, China[2]
Allegiance United Kingdom
BranchUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland British Army
Years of service1838–1860
RankSurgeon Major
Service number4525[3]
Unit17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot, 1838–
14th (The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons, 1842–
58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot, 1847–
Staff, 1859–60[3]
CommandsPMO, 2nd Division, British Expeditionary Force, China, 1860[1]
AwardsGold Medal prize for MD thesis, Medical Faculty, University of Edinburgh, 1837[2]
MemorialsCenotaph, Saint John Episcopal Graveyard, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Spouse(s)Ngāhiraka Wood[4]
Children3

Surgeon Major Arthur Saunders Thomson (29 December 1816 – 4 November 1860) was a notable Scottish military surgeon, medical scientist, writer and historian.[2] He was born in Arbroath, Angus, Scotland in 1816.[5]

He joined the British Army on 19 October 1838 as an assistant surgeon to the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot[6][7] and was stationed in India with the 14th (The King's) Regiment of Light Dragoons until 1847.[8] There, he wrote about the epidemic of fever among his regiment during the monsoon season. Upon his return to England, he was appointed surgeon to the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot[9] and sent to New Zealand. In New Zealand he wrote extensively about disease statistics among Māori and European populations and climatology.[5]

Thomson's book, The Story of New Zealand: Past and Present, Savage and Civilized (1859), is generally considered to be the first scholarly history of the island country.[10]

He was promoted to surgeon major in 1858[11] and was sent back to England. A year later, he was placed in charge of the hospital steamship Mauritius and sent to China where he was in medical charge of the 2nd Division, British Expeditionary Force. He died there on 4 November 1860 and was buried in the Russian cemetery, Pekin.[5]

Publications

References

  1. ^ a b Stationers' Hall (1861). The Monthly Record of Births, Deaths & Marriages A–Z for the Month Ending January 1, 1861. London: Alfred Knowler and Mrs. Janet Taylor. p. 121.
  2. ^ a b c d "Obituary. The Late Dr. Arthur S. Thomson". The Medical Times and Gazette. Journal of Medical Science, Literature, Criticism, and News. 1. London: John Churchill: 103. 26 January 1861.
  3. ^ a b Johnston, William (1917). Howell, Harry Arthur Leonard (ed.). Roll of Commissioned Officers of the Medical Service of the British Army. Aberdeen: The University Press. p. 304.
  4. ^ Kemp, Jill (2023), Tilley, Dion; WiRepa, Silvana (eds.), South to the Left of Venus: Part 2 (PDF), Opotiki: Jill Kemp, pp. 13–49
  5. ^ a b c Belgrave, Michael. "Arthur Saunders Thomson". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  6. ^ Hart, Henry George (1839). The New Army List for 1839. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 68.
  7. ^ Hart, Henry George (1842). The New Army List for 1842. London: John Murray. p. 168.
  8. ^ Hart, Henry George (1847). The New Army List for 1847. Vol. 8. London: John Murray. p. 140.
  9. ^ Hart, Henry George (1848). The New Army List for 1848. Vol. 9. London: John Murray. p. 209.
  10. ^ Boyd, Kelly (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Chicago: Taylor & Francis. p. 870. ISBN 978-1-884964-33-6.
  11. ^ "Hospital Staff". The London Gazette. No. 22208. 10 December 1858. p. 5386.
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