Thomas Bewley
Thomas Bewley of St Thomas's Hospital, London, was president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 1984 to 1987.
He was born in Dublin in 1926 into a Quaker family with a strong medical tradition. The Bewley family were well established in Dublin and among many other things established the well-known Bewley's cafes. He attended the School of Medicine 1944–1950. After graduation he was appointed a Senior House Officer at St Patrick's Hospital, a major psychiatric hospital in Dublin. He then moved to London and spent short periods at various hospitals before taking up a post at the Maudsley Hospital. He then spent a year in Cincinnati and took up a post at Tooting Bec Hospital when he returned in 1960 and gained the position of consultant the following year.
He wrote a history of the Royal College entitled Madness to Mental Illness.Personal life
While at St. Patrick's, he met a young medical student called Beulah Knox and they married in 1955 and had five children.
