Thomas David Lister

Thomas David Lister was a British physician, surgeon and paediatrician, born in London on 30 January 1869, who died on 30 July 1924. He was the son of Francis Wilson Lister and Elizabeth Wishart, was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and trained at Guy's Hospital, graduating Doctor of Medicine in 1894, the year he also became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1900. He served as house surgeon at Guy's, as pathologist at the East London Hospital for Children, and later as physician to the Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption and the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children. An expert on tuberculosis and on the medical aspects of life assurance, he was responsible for drawing up the plans for Benenden Sanatorium, and in January 1920 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work in the First World War.