Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith MD, MCRP
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Residence	Portland House, Cheltenham
Occupation	medical
Society Membership membership ASL ordinary fellow ASL Foundation Fellow left 1869.12.14 resigned elected_ASL 1863 societies Royal College of Physicians

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[national archives]: will of Thomas Smith M.D., of Portland House, Cheltenham (1887)
1858/9 - Physicians: Smith Thomas, Portland House, Albion street

MD so possibly not the Thomas Smith below
[Cheltonia] Thomas Smith – a local banker. In 1811 he built the ‘new’ Pate’s Almshouse in Albion Street, which still survives today and bears a stone tablet with its name and date, a pleasantly proportioned late Georgian building now looking a bit odd squidged up against a large 1930s cinema. The building was part of a bargain Smith struck with an Oxford college who owned the delapidated original almshouse in the High Street, built 250 years earlier by Richard Pate as a home for six elderly poor people and endowed with a chapel, orchard and private gardens. Smith bought the site for £250 and immediately flogged it for £2000. The new almshouse was provided as a condition of the purchase, but it was a raw deal for the poor of the parish … a much smaller plot and lacking the chapel, orchard and gardens. If I ever decide to set up a new category for Cheltenham Arseholes, Thomas Smith will be the first to be included.

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