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Thomas Richard Allinson arrived in the Hulme district of Manchester on the 29th of March 1858. He attended school in Lancaster and Manchester before beginning work as a chemist's assistant at age fifteen.
Thomas Richard Allinson graduated as a Licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879. This institution cost less than the University medical school due to financial constraints that forced him to seek an alternative route into medicine.
Thomas Richard Allinson was struck off the Medical Register in 1892 because he opposed the use of drugs by doctors and his self-promotion in the press alienated professional colleagues. The General Medical Council has no record of an offer to re-register him during World War I.
Thomas Richard Allinson wrote over 1000 articles for the Weekly Times and Echo while serving as its medical editor in 1885. He also answered readers' medical queries regularly throughout his career.
Thomas Richard Allinson died from tuberculosis at his home in Marylebone on the 29th of November 1918. His company flourished from increased demand for whole-grain bread and meal after his death.