Thomas George Wilson

Sir Thomas George Wilson (March 27, 1876 – March 15, 1958) was an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was a founding fellow of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and State Nurses Registration Board of South Australia.

Early life Generally knows as George, Wilson was born in Armidale in 1876, the fourth child of Charles Wilson, an Irish-Australian politician, and his wife Annie (née McBride) who was also Irish born. Wilson was educated at New England Grammar School and The University of Sydney, graduating from his undergraduate studies in 1899 and his medical degree in 1904, though qualifying as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1901. He also undertook postgraduate work in Vienna, London and Dublin.

Career After completing his studies, Wilson returned to Australia, settling in Adelaide. He co-founded the Australasian Trained Nurses' Association's South Australia branch organisation with hospital owner Kate Hill and Dr A. A. Lendon in 1905. He established an innovative ante-natal clinic at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1910, believing that routine examination during pregnancy would reduce labour complications. He operated as the sole doctor of the clinic until 1914.

Resuming practice in Adelaide in 1919, Wilson revived the ante-natal clinic he had founded, which had been dormant in his absence during the war. The clinic transferred to Queen's Home in 1923 and was named in his honour in 1932. Wilson traveled overseas in 1935, researching ways to reduce maternal mortality. On his return, he lobbied for better medical training for improving medical training for doctors and nurses to improve maternal mortality.

Personal life Wilson married Elsa May Couzens (1884–1960), a nurse, in 1923 at the Holy Trinity Church of England in Adelaide. They had two sons, David George Wilson, who became a diplomat and was the Australian ambassador to Spain, and Charles Graham Wilson (1924–2005, who was also a surgeon.

He was president of the Royal Adelaide Golf Club from 1941 to 1950, had represented New South Wales in tennis while at university and represented the University of Sydney in rowing.