Glass, Thomas (1709–1786), physician and medical writer, was born on 14 May 1709 in Tiverton, second of the nine children of Michael Glass, dyer, of Tiverton, Devon, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Handford. He was educated first at Tiverton by Revd John Moore...
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Glass, Thomas (1709–1786), physician and medical writer
Gordon Goodwin
revised by Alick Cameron
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Smith, (Thomas) Southwood (1788–1861), Unitarian minister and physician
R. K. Webb
Smith, (Thomas) Southwood (1788–1861), Unitarian minister and physician, was born at Martock, Somerset, on 21 December 1788, the son of William Smith and Catherine Southwood, strict Baptists who early destined their son for the ministry. He studied with William Blake (1773–1821), who had just succeeded his father (of the same name) as minister of the Presbyterian chapel at ...