Thomas Moore Philson

Thomas Moore Philson (10 August 1817 – 22 November 1899) was a New Zealand medical doctor and hospital superintendent.

Philson was born in Derry, County Londonderry, Ireland in 1817.

He was commissioned with the rank of assistant surgeon in the 58th (Rutlandshire) Regiment of Foot on 6 October 1843, and arrived in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on the British Sovereign from Sydney, with fellow officers and 214 soldiers of the 58th, in October 1845.

After his military career, he set up a private practice as a surgeon in Auckland. Despite his relative youth, within a decade, he held all important administrative medical positions in Auckland. He was superintendent of Auckland Hospital from 1859.