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Thomas Meade
CBE, FRS, FRCP
Born
Thomas Wilson Meade

(1936-01-21)21 January 1936
Oxford, England
Died24 October 2022(2022-10-24) (aged 86)
Highgate, London, England
Alma mater
SpouseElizabeth Meade (née Perks)
ChildrenRichard David Meade, Helen Anna Meade, Rebecca Meade.
Parent(s)James Edward Meade, Margaret Elizabeth Meade (née Wilson).
AwardsBalzan Prize for Epidemiology

Thomas Wilson Meade CBE FRS FRCP (21 January 1936 – 24 October 2022) was a British epidemiologist. He was a pioneer in epidemiology—in particular, in the role blood clotting factors have in cardiovascular disease.[1]

Life and career

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Meade was born in Oxford, England on 21 January 1936.[2][3] He underwent medical training at Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1960.[4]

In 1970, after a period studying at the Schieffelin Leprosy Research Sanatorium in South India,[5] he became Director of the Medical Research Council's Epidemiology and Medical Care Unit.[6] He retired from there in 2001, and became Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, investigating cardiovascular disease.[4]

He held Honorary Consultant positions in Epidemiology at St Bartholomew's, and at Northwick Park Hospital.[6]

Meade was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1994 Birthday Honours "For services to Medicine and to Science",[7] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996[4][8] and received the Balzan Prize for epidemiology in 1997.[3] In 1998, he was an inaugural Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.[9]

He was a Quaker, attending Hampstead Friends Meeting. He had a son and two daughters, and eight grandchildren.[10] Meade's son, Sir Richard Meade, was appointed a High Court judge in 2020.[11] One of his daughters runs the Railway Land Wildlife Trust in Lewes, Sussex, the other is a NHS medical doctor in London.

Meade died from a lower respiratory tract infection and small vessel cerebrovascular disease at his flat in Highgate, London, on 24 October 2022, aged 86.[10][2]

References

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  1. ↑ "Tom Meade". Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Meade, Thomas Wilson [Tom]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 July 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Thomas Wilson Meade - 1997 Balzan Prize for Epidemiology". Balzan Prize. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Tom Meade". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Tom Meade". London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  6. 1 2 Andy Ness; Lois Reynolds; Tilli Tansey, eds. (2002). Population-based Research in South Wales: The MRC Pneumoconiosis Research Unit and the MRC Epidemiology Unit. Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine. History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. ISBN 978-0-85484-081-6. OL 16407718M. Wikidata Q29581659.
  7. ↑ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 June 1994. p. 10.
  8. ↑ Haines, Sir Andy (2024). "Thomas Wilson Meade. 21 January 1936 — 24 October 2022". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 76: 259–276. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2023.0036.
  9. ↑ "Deceased Fellows". Academy of Medical Sciences. Retrieved 12 June 2026.
  10. 1 2 Warren, Penny (22 November 2022). "Tom Meade obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "Meade, Hon. Sir Richard (David), (born 14 Nov. 1966)". Who's Who (UK). 1 December 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u246620. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
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