Thomas Stewart Traill

Thomas Stewart Traill FRSE PRCPE MWS RSSA (29 October 1781 – 30 July 1862) was a British physician, chemist, meteorologist, zoologist and scholar of medical jurisprudence.

[2] He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh under Dr Alexander Monro,[3] gaining his doctorate (MD) in 1802.

When John James Audubon arrived in Liverpool in July 1826 Traill helped him to find a publisher for his The Birds of America.

Always interested in railways, in October 1829 he and his family attended the famous Rainhill trials and saw first hand Stephenson's "Rocket" win the competition.

[7] In 1847 he replaced Macvey Napier as main Editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1852–61) and was creator of its 8th edition: works concluding a year before his death.

[8] In 1840 he was living at 10 Albyn Place in Edinburgh's Moray Estate close to Charlotte Square.

[9] He died at his final home, 29 Rutland Square[10] in Edinburgh's West End on 30 July 1862, and was interred at St Cuthbert's cemetery.