Thomas Clouston

Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (22 April 1840 – 19 April 1915) was a Scottish psychiatrist.

Life

Clouston was the youngest of four sons of Robert Clouston (1786–1857) 3rd of Nisthouse, in the Birsay parish of Orkney, and his wife Janet (née Smith). The Cloustons descend from Havard Gunnason (fl. 1090), Chief Counsellor to Haakon, Earl of Orkney, and later became landed gentry taking their name from their estate, Clouston.

Clouston was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1875 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposers were Sir Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, John Hutton Balfour, Sir William Turner and Alexander Crum Brown. In 1881 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.

In 1894 he opened the Craig House extension to the Royal Edinburgh asylum on Easter Craiglockhart Hill, which was renamed the Thomas Clouston Clinic in 1972. The buildings later became part of Napier University. He Received the Freedom of the Burgh of Kirkwall on 28 August 1908.

At the end of his life Clouston lived at 26 Heriot Row, an elegant and substantial Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh's New Town.

He died in Edinburgh on 19 April 1915. He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh with his wife Dame Harriet Secur Storer (1835–1917). The grave lies on the obscured southern terrace. His daughter, Augusta Maud Clouston CBE (1871–1960) lies to the side, with her husband Sir David Wallace (1862–1952).

Artistic recognition

His sketch portrait of 1884, by William Brassey Hole, shown arm-in arm with Douglas Argyll Robertson, is held by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Publications

Clinical Lectures on Mental Diseases The Neuroses of Development The Hygiene of Mind Unsoundness of Mind