Vanity Fair - 1906
SIR THOMAS BARLOW,
VICTORIA'S PHYSICIAN
LONDON, Jan. 14 (U.P.) -- Sir Thomas Barlow, physician to England's royal families during the reigns of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, died Friday at the age of 99.
Sir Thomas was physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria and attended her in her last illness. Later he became physician to the household of her son, Edward, who was the father of King George V and grandfather of George VI.
He served as president of the Royal College of Physicians here from 1910 to 1915 and was president of the International Medical Congress here in 1913. He had received honorary degrees from several universities, including Harvard, Montreal and Toronto.
Sir Thomas, who had held the post of Director General of Civilian Clothing in the present war, was created a Baronet in 1900. He made his reputation as a children's doctor, and was the first to diagnosis the disease of "scurvy rickets" in infants, which became known to the German medical profession as "Barlow's disease." In his active days he made a large income, being unable to attend half the patients who tried to see him.
In 1880 he married Ada Dalmahoy, who died in 1928. Two sons and a daughter survive. The heir to the title is Sir James Alan Noel Barlow joint Second Secretary to the Treasury.
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