Robert Thin

{{Infobox person

| name = Robert Thin

| honorific_suffix = FRCPE

| image = Robert Thin.png

| birth_date = 1861

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1941|09|18|1861|df=y}}

| alma_mater = University of Edinburgh

| title = President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

| term = 1931-33

| predecessor = Norman Purvis Walker

| successor = Edwin Bramwell

| spouse = Mary Glover Wright (married 1894)

| children = 2 daughters, 1 son

| parents = {{Plainlist|

James Thin
Catherine Traquair}}

}}

Robert Thin PRCPE (1861–1941) was a 20th-century Scottish physician who served as President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1931 to 1933, and was the first GP in this role.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-232564|title=Thin, Robert, (1861–18 Sept. 1941), medical practitioner|website=www.ukwhoswho.com|date=2007 |language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u232564|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1 |access-date=2019-02-02}}

Life

He was born at 54 South BridgeEdinburgh Post Office Directory 1861 in Edinburgh in 1861 the youngest (and seventh) son of Catherine Traquair and her husband, James Thin, a bookseller.{{cite web |title=18 James Thin (1824-1915) |url=https://grangeassociation.org/cemetery/18-james-thin-1824-1915/ |website=The Grange Association |access-date=12 July 2023 |date=24 May 2021}} The family moved to a villa at 7 Rillbank Terrace in the Grange in his youth, as his father's company grew.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1881

He was educated at the Royal High School then took a general degree at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1883, allowing him to then study medicine and graduating with an MB ChB in 1887. Following graduation he became house surgeon to Professor John Chiene.{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/robert-thin-186073|title=Robert Thin {{!}} Art UK|website=artuk.org|language=en|access-date=2019-02-02}}

He was then House Physician to Dr John Wylie at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on Lauriston Place before going to the Sick Children's Hospital, Edinburgh. He then became a general practitioner.

In 1910 he was living at 25 Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's New Town.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910

He lived his final years at 6 Albany Street.{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/albanystreetedinburgh/further-backround/doctors|title=Doctors - Nineteenth Century Residents of Albany Street, Edinburgh|website=sites.google.com|access-date=2019-02-02}} In 1891 Thin was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh and served as President in 1928.{{Cite book|url=https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ww4e59xv|title= A Record of the Edinburgh Harveian Society|last=Watson Wemyss|first=Herbert Lindesay|publisher=T&A Constable, Edinburgh|year=1933|language=en}} In 1927 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.{{Cite book|title=Minute Books of the Aesculapian Club|url=http://archives.rcpe.ac.uk/calmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=DEP%2fAEC%2f1&pos=2|location= Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh}}

He died in Edinburgh on 18 September 1941.

Family

He married Mary Glover Wright in 1894 and together they had three children, 2 daughters and a son.{{Cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/names/robert_thin|title=Robert Thin - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage|website=www.myheritage.com|access-date=2019-02-02}}

He was grandfather to Dr Robert Nicol Traquair Thin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/obituary/dr-robert-nicol-traquair-thin-obe-frcp-edin|title=Dr Robert Nicol Traquair Thin, OBE, FRCP Edin {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh|website=www.rcpe.ac.uk|date=9 September 2013 |access-date=2019-02-02}}