Thomas Shepherd Novis (3 December 1874 – 2 March 1962), was a British surgeon with the Indian Medical Service.
Life Novis was born on 3 December 1874. He was educated at Bedford Modern School and trained at the London Hospital where he qualified as MRCS and LRCP in 1897.The Eagle, The Magazine of Bedford Modern School, Vol. XVI no, 1 (March, 1926), p. 59A Register of the Old Boys of the Bedford Modern School. Compiled and Edited by H.E. Vipan. Published in Bedford by W.J. Robinson, 1901, p. 88 He joined the Indian Medical Service in 1898 as a Lieutenant,The London Gazette, 23 August 1898, Issue 26998, p. 5084 and was promoted to Captain in 1901, Major in 1910 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1918.The London Gazette, 2 September 1910, Issue 28412, p. 6337 He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910 and became Professor of Surgery and Senior Surgeon at the Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals, Bombay.
Thomas Novis retired from the Indian Medical Service in 1927. He died in Cape Town on 2 March 1962 and was survived by his wife, Beatrice Mildred Novis (née Mott).Death notice in The Times, March 12, 1962, Death of Thomas Shepherd Novis, Royal Edition, Number 55,337, p. 1
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