Dr Thomas Southwell FRSE FZS (1879–1962) was a 20th century British zoologist and parasitologist.
[1] In 1906 he began work in the Pearl Fisheries Department in Ceylon.
In 1919 he returned to Britain to begin lecturing in Parasitology and Helminthology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[2] He retired in 1939 and died in Todmorden in Lancashire on 11 June 1962.