Thomas Nicol Johnston

Thomas Nicol Johnston FRSE (1870-1923) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur zoologist.

The grave of Thomas Nicol Johnston, Corstorphine churchyard, Edinburgh

Life

He was the son of Wilhelmina Storrie (1836-1903) and Thomas Johnston (1822-1899) of Corstorphine House in western Edinburgh.

He studied medicine as a mature student at the University of Edinburgh beginning in 1897. He graduated with an MB ChB.[1] From 1902 to 1907 he acted as the zoologist on John Murray and Laurence Pullar's Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish Fresh-Water Lochs.[2][3] In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir John Murray, Laurence Pullar, Alexander Buchan and John Horne.[3]

He died at Humbie in East Lothian on 6 October 1923 but is buried with his parents in Corstorphine Parish Churchyard in western Edinburgh.[4]

Family

He was married to Emma McPherson (1876-1953).

In 1917 he appears to have been involved in an antenuptial contract relating to the mental health of his daughter, Margaret Fraser Johnston to Charles Henry Adamson.[5]

References
  1. "Johnston, Thomas Nicol".
  2. "Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland, 1897-1909". National Library of Scotland. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
  3. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X.
  4. "Corstorphine Old Parish - Headstone Information Numbers 351 to 425".
  5. The Scottish Law Reporter: 1917


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