Noah Thomas

Sir Noah Thomas FRS FRCP (1720 – 17 May 1792)^[1] was a Welsh physician who was physician-in-ordinary to King George III.^[2] He was a fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians, and a Gulstonian lecturer.^[3]

Sir Noah Thomas in painting by George Romney, 1781.

Thomas was born in Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Hophni Thomas, master of a merchant vessel.^[4] He was educated in Oakham, Rutland, and St John's College, Cambridge.^[3]

Thomas was the occupant, in 1780, of Cannon Hall, Hampstead.^[5]

He was knighted in 1775. He died in Bath, Somerset in 1792.^[3]