[1][2][3] After education at Liverpool College, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris.
[1] Dr. Glynn was lecturer in medicine at the Royal Infirmary School of Medicine—one of the band of distinguished teachers (Mitchell Banks, Richard Caton, Alexander Davidson, William Carter, Rushton Parker) that gained for the school a high reputation.
[1] During holidays, he worked on sketching and painting with Robert Fowler and achieved almost a professional standard.
[4] His teaching was largely based on his knowledge of pathology, and at the Medical Institution and in his class-rooms his expositions were frequently illustrated by excellent water-colour paintings of specimens of fresh preparations, and also of clinical conditions.
On 11 April 1872 at St Mary's Church, Wimbledon, Thomas Glynn married Octavia de Paiva, who died in 1882.