Thomas Shepherd Novis

Thomas Shepherd Novis FRCS (3 December 1874 – 2 March 1962), was a British surgeon with the Indian Medical Service.[1][2][3]

Thomas Shepherd Novis

FRCS
Born(1874-12-03)3 December 1874
Brighton, England
Died2 March 1962(1962-03-02) (aged 87)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalityBritish
EducationBedford Modern School
Alma materLondon Hospital

Life

Novis was born on 3 December 1874. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and trained at the London Hospital where he qualified as MRCS and LRCP in 1897.[1][4][5] He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1898 as a Lieutenant,[6] and was promoted to Captain in 1901, Major in 1910 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910 and became Professor of Surgery and Senior Surgeon at the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Bombay.[1]

Thomas Novis retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1927. He died in Cape Town on 2 March 1962 and was survived by his wife, Beatrice Mildred Novis (née Mott).[1][8]

References
  1. "Novis, Thomas Shephard (1874 - 1962)". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk.
  2. Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 - Volume 2. Andrews UK Limited. 8 February 2012. ISBN 9781781502310.
  3. The India Office and Burma Office List. Harrison and sons, Limited. 1928.
  4. The Eagle, The Magazine of Bedford Modern School, Vol. XVI no, 1 (March, 1926), p. 59
  5. A Register of the Old Boys of the Bedford Modern School. Compiled and Edited by H.E. Vipan. Published in Bedford by W.J. Robinson, 1901, p. 88
  6. The London Gazette, 23 August 1898, Issue 26998, p. 5084
  7. The London Gazette, 2 September 1910, Issue 28412, p. 6337
  8. Death notice in The Times, March 12, 1962, Death of Thomas Shepherd Novis, Royal Edition, Number 55,337, p. 1
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