Thomas Pridgin Teale (died 1923)

Thomas Pridgin Teale was a British surgeon and ophthalmologist who lived from 28 June 1831 to 13 November 1923 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 7 June 1888. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, Winchester College, Brasenose College at Oxford and King's College London. From 1889 to 1892 he was president of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. In the First World War he became one of the oldest men to serve in the British Army: he was 83 when he was called up in August 1914 and 87 at the time of his discharge, having served as a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The title of the source article carries the qualifier died 1923.