Lt Colonel Frank Wyville Thomson FRSE IMS (1860–27 May 1918) was a 19th/20th century Scottish military surgeon and expert on tropical medicine who advanced public health in India and a noted amateur naturalist.
He was born in Belfast in Ireland the only son of Jane Ramage Dawson and her husband Professor Charles Wyville Thomson.
[1][2] He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB around 1881 and became a Surgeon Captain in the 3rd Bengal Cavalry in India.
When his father died in 1882 he inherited the family estate of Bonyside near Linlithgow.
His proposers were Sir John Murray, a close colleague of his father, Sir William Turner, Alexander Crum Brown and George Chrystal.