Thomas Robinson Glynn
Thomas Robinson Glynn was a British physician, pathologist, and professor of medicine at University College Liverpool.
Education and career
After education at Liverpool College, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris. He graduated from the University of London with MB BS in 1865 and higher MD in 1879.After his MB qualification, he obtained appointments as assistant physician to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, physician to the David Lewis Northern Hospital, and demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Liverpool School of Medicine. At the Liverpool Royal Infirmary he became in 1871 a full physician, an appointment he held until retiring as consulting physician in 1901.
Glynn was elected FRCP in 1882. Under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians he gave in 1903 the Lumleian Lectures on infective endocarditis and in 1913 the Bradshaw Lecture on hysteria.
During holidays, he worked on sketching and painting with Robert Fowler and achieved almost a professional standard. Some of Glynn's paintings were publicly exhibited.