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Dr Emerson was born in 1930 into a large Catholic family in London, where his father was a dental practitioner. Thomas was schooled by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius College in Stamford Hill, London, from 1942 to 1949. At school he took part in sports, mainly squash, rackets and tennis, as well as

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  • In 1966, he scaled all the heights of academic chemistry. He decided to perform an academic somersault and began again at the bottom, this time to scale the medical ladder. He entered St Bartholomew’s Medical School as a student, emerging in 1973 with the degrees MB, BS London to hang on his academic belt

  • He completed his house jobs including that of a casualty officer at St Bartholomew’s in 1975. It was at this hospital that he formed a taste for psychiatry and he was appointed a consultant in Riverside Health Authority where he continued his very successful and amazing career in psychiatry

  • This included work in Hackney, St Mary Abbots and the Gordon Hospitals but mainly in St Bartholomew’s where he eventually retired as a consultant psychiatrist in 1995

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Dr Emerson was born in 1930 into a large Catholic family in London, where his father was a dental practitioner. Thomas was schooled by the Jesuits at St. Ignatius College in Stamford Hill, London, from 1942 to 1949. On leaving school he worked as a technician for the Medical Research Council while he studied at Birkbeck College in the evenings, obtaining a BSc in chemistry in 1957.

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