Thomas Hugh Milroy

Thomas Hugh Milroy FRSE (1869 – 20 March 1950) was a Scottish physiologist and organic chemist.

He was born in Kirkcowan in Wigtownshire, the eldest son of Annie and John Milroy.

He undertook postgraduate studies in Germany at Berlin and Marburg then returned to Edinburgh as assistant to Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.

[3] At this stage he was still living with his parents but they had moved to a very grand villa at 57 Inverleith Row.

[4] In 1902 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at Queen's College, Belfast and he got his younger brother John to join him as a lecturer.