Arthur Thomson

Sir Arthur Peregrine Thomson (1890 – 15 July 1977) was a British physician.

Born in British Guiana the son of Arthur Henry Thomson, a colonial civil servant, he was educated at Dulwich College and Birmingham University, where he graduated in 1915 with first class honours in medicine, surgery and midwifery. He was also awarded the gold medal in clinical medicine, the Russell Memorial Prize, and was both Queen's and Ingleby Scholar.

After graduation, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain and served as a Regimental Medical Officer with the Guards Division in France during World War I, where he was awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre, and was Mentioned in Despatches twice by the British and once by the French.

In 1947 Birmingham University appointed him part-time Professor of Therapeutics, after which he became Dean of the Medical Faculty and in 1952 vice-principal of the university. He was knighted in 1959.

He married Minnie Scott Hutchings (née Lindsley) in Birmingham in 1912; they had one adopted daughter.