Thomas Baddeley Symons (September 2, 1880 – July 1970) was an American academic who briefly served as President of the University of Maryland, College Park in 1954.
Symons was born in Easton, Maryland and raised on a farm in Talbot County.
[2] His administrative career with the Maryland Agricultural College began in 1912, when he was named dean of the School of Horticulture.
He returned to the University of Maryland in 1954 to serve as its acting president, until Wilson Homer Elkins was appointed later that year.
Symons' major accomplishment during his short tenure was to remodel the Rossburgh Inn as a faculty club.