- GB-2014-WSA-17472
- Person
- 1851-1909
WAKLEY, THOMAS, only son of Thomas Henry Wakley FRCS, Arlington Street, Piccadilly, London, surgeon and editor of The Lancet, and Harriette Anne, third dau. of Francis Radford Blake, Rickmansworth, Herts.; b. 10 Jul 1851; adm. 31 Jan 1865 (James'); QS 1866; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1870, matr. Mich. 1870; St. Thomas’s Hospital; a serious bicycle accident interrupted his medical studies for some six years; LRCP 1883; entered the office of The Lancet as assistant to his uncle James Wakley, its then editor; Joint Editor of the Lancet with his father 1886-1907, sole Editor from 1907; m. 8 Aug 1903 Gladys Muriel, dau. of Norman Barron; d. 5 Mar 1909. DNB.