Thomas Clouston

Sir Thomas Smith Clouston (April 22 1840–1915) was a Scottish psychiatrist.^[1]

Clouston was born in the Birsay parish of Orkney^[2], and educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and the University of Edinburgh.^[1] He worked at the Cumberland and Westmoreland Asylum in Carlisle, before being appointed Superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum and Lecturer in Mental Diseases at the University of Edinburgh. In 1894 he opened the Craighouse extension to the asylum on Easter Craiglockhart Hill, which was renamed the Thomas Clouston Clinic in 1972. The buildings now form part of Napier University.^[2]

Clouston retired in 1908 and was knighted in 1911.^[2] His son was the author Storer Clouston.^{[citation needed]}