Thomas Douglas Whittet

Thomas Douglas Whittet (4 January 1915 – 15 April 1987) was a British pharmacist and historian.

Early life, education and career Born and raised in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, Whittet attended Rosebank High School and Sunderland Technical College (now the University of Sunderland), qualifying as a pharmaceutical chemist in 1938.

Honors and awards Whittet was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1977 New Year Honours. He served as the president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1981 to 1983. He served as Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries from 1982 to 1983, becoming the first pharmacist to hold this position since the Apothecaries Act 1815 transformed the Society from a pharmaceutical to a medical one.

Selected publications "The apothecaries in the Great Plague of London", 1665 (Society of Apothecaries' Sydenham Lecture, 1965; Ewell, Surrey: Morgan, 1970).

Personal life Whittet was married to Doreen Mary Bowes (1915 – 2009) from 1942 until his death in 1987. They had two sons, Douglas Whittet (born 1947), who became an astrophysicist, and David Whittet (born 1953), who became a medical doctor.