Thomas King Chambers

Thomas King Chambers (16 October 1817, London – 15 August 1889, Middlesex) was an English physician who published and lectured on diet and digestion.

[5] After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, with honours in classics, Chambers studied medicine at St George's Hospital and received the degree of B.M.

[7] In 1859 he was selected as physician in accompaniment to the Prince of Wales on a journey through Italy, Spain, and North Africa[5] and seemed likely to gain a large, lucrative practice.

[7] Because of his health problems, he retired to Sunningdale in 1878[2] but continued to visit London as physician employed by the Hand-in-Hand Insurance Office and as a member of the General Medical Council.

He contributed a 45-page appendix The principles of diet in health and disease to the 1879 American edition, edited by Eliza Ann Youmans, of a 1877 cookbook by Rose Owen Cole,[17] He worked, with considerable success, to improve medical education, especially the status of medicine at the University of Oxford and the professional value of its medical degrees.