death_date death_place birth_place nationality article_title birth_date known_for image employer name
4 march 1961 peeblesshire , scotland willington , county durham , england british thomas renton elliott
 11 october 1877 investigation of the chemical transmission of nerve action thomas renton elliott.jpg university college hospital thomas renton elliott
thomas renton elliott

thomas renton elliott frs -lrb- 11 october 1877 -- 4 march 1961 -rrb- was a british physician and physiologist .
elliott was born in willington , county durham , as the eldest son to retailer archibald william elliott and his wife , anne , daughter of thomas renton , of otley , yorkshire .
he studied natural sciences at trinity college , cambridge , specialising in physiology .
he joined university college hospital as a junior staff member in 1910 , and eventually became first professor of medicine and director of the medical unit at gower street .
elliot married martha m'cosh in 1918 .
they had three sons and two daughters .
