Thomas Henry Flewett

Thomas Henry Flewett
In his laboratory at East Birmingham (now Heartlands) Hospital in 1984
Born	(1922-06-29)29 June 1922 Shimla, India
Died	12 December 2006(2006-12-12) (aged 84) Solihull, United Kingdom
Citizenship	British
Nationality	Irish
Fields	Virology
Institutions	Regional Virus Laboratory, Birmingham
Alma mater	Queens University Belfast
Known for	Rotaviruses
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Thomas Henry Flewett, MD, FRCPath, FRCP (29 June 1922 – 12 December 2006) was a founder member (and subsequently Fellow) of the Royal College of Pathologists and was elected (by distinction) a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1978. He was chairman of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Steering Committee on Viral Diarrhoeal Diseases, 1990–3, and a member until 1996. His laboratory in Birmingham was a World Health Organisation Reference and Research Centre for Rotavirus Infections from 1980 until his retirement in 1987. He was an external examiner, visiting lecturer, and scientific journal editor. He was a member of the board of the Public Health Laboratory Service (now Public Health England) from 1977 to 1983 and was Chairman of the Public Health Laboratory Service, Committee on Electron Microscopy from 1977 to 1987.

Flewett received his medical education at Queen's University, Belfast, where he graduated with honours at the end of the World War II in 1945.

Flewett was born in Shimla India, where his father, William Edward Flewett (born 1894) a graduate of Oxford University, was a member of the Imperial Forestry Service, that, in 1966, became the Indian Forest Service of the Indian Civil Service. In 1915, his father joined the Indian Reserve Army, as required by law, becoming a Second Lieutenent in July 1916. He was transferred to Lahore in 1924. Thomas Flewett was educated at Campbell College in Belfast.