Thomas John Jehu

Thomas John Jehu FRSE FGS (19 February 1871 – 18 July 1943) was a British physician and geologist.

[2] He was born in Mill House, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire, in Wales in 1871, the son of a miller,[1] John Jehu.

In 1904 he unsuccessfully tried for the chair in geology at the University of Glasgow but lost to John Walter Gregory.

His proposers were James Geikie, Ben Peach, John Horne, and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.

[8] He remained a professor until death in Edinburgh, on 18 July 1943, aged 72, when he was succeeded by Arthur Holmes.