Thomas Stephenson (chemist)

Thomas Stephenson FRSE FCS (1864–29 October 1938) was a Scottish chemist and pharmacist.

[1] He was born in 1864 at 37 George Street in Edinburgh's New Town[2] the son of John B. Stephenson a chemist with James Robertson & Co.

He trained as a chemist and joined his father, who had set up his own business, at 48 Frederick Street.

His proposers were Frederick Orpen Bower, Sir Thomas Richard Fraser, Robert McNair Ferguson, and Leonard Dobbin.

[4] By this time he was Editor of "The Prescriber" magazine, and had a shop at 137 George Street in the city centre, and was living at 9 Woodburn Terrace, a flat in the Morningside district.