Thomas Shephard Novis

Thomas Shephard Novis FRCS (3 December 1874 – 2 March 1962), was a British surgeon with the Indian Medical Service.[1]

Life

Novis was born on 3 December 1874. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and trained at the London Hospital where he qualified as MRCS and LRCP in 1897.[2][3] He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1898 and was promoted to Captain in 1901, Major in 1910 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910 and became Professor of Surgery and Senior Surgeon at the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Bombay.[4]

Thomas Novis retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1927. He died in Cape Town on 2 March 1962.[1]

References

1. "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Novis, Thomas Shephard".
2. The Eagle Vol. XVI no, 1 (March, 1926), p. 59
3. "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Novis, Thomas Shephard, retrieved March, 2015".
4. "Plarr's Lives of the Fellows, Novis, Thomas Shephard, retrieved, March 2015".