Thomas E. A. Stowell

Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell, CBE, FRCS (1885 to 8 November 1970) was a British physician and surgeon. He was educated at St Paul's School and St Thomas' Hospital, qualified as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1912 and gained a Doctorate in Medicine in 1927. His appointments included posts at hospitals in London, Sidcup, Northwich and Cheshire, and he served as consulting surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service. He became chief medical officer to Imperial Chemical Industries, was a founder of the Association of Industrial Medical Officers, now the Society of Occupational Medicine, and chaired several councils and committees on industrial medicine, work for which he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1949. Days before his death he drew public attention with a 1970 article in The Criminologist that seemed to implicate Prince Albert Victor in the Jack the Ripper murders, a link he denied in a letter to The Times.