Sir Thomas Tod was a 15th-century Scottish leather merchant who served four times as Provost of Edinburgh.
He was knighted at the end of this service and reappears three times on the list of Provosts as "Sir Thomas Tod": 1491 to 1492; 1496 to 1498; and 1499 and 1500.
[2] In 1497 his duties included overseeing an epidemic of the "grandgore" (syphilis) during which victims were confined on the isle of Inchcolm in the Firth of Forth.
Persons dying at that time would be buried in the graveyard of St Giles Cathedral on the High Street.
[5] The final remnants of his house were lost on the construction of New College for the Free Church of Scotland.