Honoratus Leigh Thomas

He passed as 1st mate, 3rd rate (navy), on 5 July 1792, and, on the recommendation of Hunter, was appointed assistant surgeon to the Macartney Embassy to China in the same year.

In 1799 he volunteered for medical service with the Duke of York's army in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.

[1] Thomas married the elder daughter of Cruikshank, and in 1800 succeeded to his father-in-law's practice in Leicester Place, where he resided for nearly half a century.

[1] At the College of Surgeons Thomas was a member of the court of assistants from 1818 to 1845, examiner from 1818 to 1845, vice-president in 1827, 1828, 1836, and 1837, and president in 1829 and 1838.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 16 January 1806, and was also a member of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.