Thomas Laycock (1812–76)

Physician. Attended the medical school of London University from 1833. MD, Göttingen, 1839. House apothecary, York County Hospital, 1836–9; general practitioner in York from 1839. Physician, York Dispensary, from 1842. Lecturer, York medical school, 1846–55. Professor of the practice of physic, University of Edinburgh, from 1855. Physician-in-ordinary to the queen in Scotland and president of the Medico-Physiological Association from 1869. Wrote on medical psychology and mental disease.