{{Short description|New Zealand medic, soldier, and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|right|Stout in 1962 '''Sir Thomas Duncan MacGregor Stout''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|DSO|ED|size=85%}} (25 July 1885 – 27 February 1979) was a New Zealand medic, soldier and author.

==Biography== Born in Wellington in 1885, he was the son of Anna Stout, a suffragist, and Robert Stout,<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18850728.2.8 | title=Births | date=28 July 1885 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=2}}</ref> who was the Premier of New Zealand at the time. He was educated at Wellington College<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19040126.2.38 | title=University examinations | date=26 January 1904 | work=New Zealand Herald | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=5}}</ref> and then studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, University of London.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP19070916.2.18 | title=News of the day | date=16 September 1907 | work=The Press | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=6}}</ref> He was conferred LRCP in 1910<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19100611.2.135 | title=Personal notes from London | date=11 June 1910 | work=Otago Daily Times | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=14}}</ref> and received a ChM in 1914.<ref name="Shadows">{{cite web |url=http://shadowsoftime.co.nz/university22.html |title=NZ university graduates 1870–1961: Sl–Sz |date= |website= |publisher= |accessdate=24 August 2014}}</ref>

He married Agnes Isobel Pearce {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}}, who served as an ambulance driver at Brockenhurst Hospital in Hampshire during the First World War,<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZFL19190313.1.12 | title=Engagement of two young Wellingtonians in London | date=13 March 1919 | work=Free Lance | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=12}}</ref> at St Paul's in Wellington on 4 December 1919.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19191205.2.113 | title=Women in print | date=5 December 1919 | work=Evening Post | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=9}}</ref> The couple had four children: Squadron Leader Robert Edward Stout; Arthur Duncan Stout; John David Stout (whose legacy funds the [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/ Stout Centre]); and Vida Stout.

He saw service in both World War I and World War II with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF). He later wrote three volumes relating to the medical services of the NZEF in World War II for New Zealand's official history. He was the first chancellor of Victoria University of Wellington after the dis-establishment of the University of New Zealand into its constituent colleges.

He remained in his post until his retirement in 1966.<ref>{{cite news |title=Duncan Stout Retirement|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Salient29101966-t1-body-d2a.html |accessdate=11 May 2019 |work=Salient: Victoria University Students’ Paper |issue=Vo. 29, No. 10 |date=29 July 1966}}</ref>

Stout died in 1979 and his ashes were buried in Karori Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://wellington.govt.nz/services/community-and-culture/cemeteries/cemeteries-search/details?id=113647&serviceType=AshesBurial |title=Cemeteries search |date= |website= |publisher=Wellington City Council |accessdate=24 August 2014}}</ref>

==Honours and awards== Stout was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30111 |date=4 June 1917 |page=5476 |supp=y }}</ref> and in 1919 he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for valuable services rendered in connection with the war.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31684 |date=12 December 1919 |page=15457 |supp=y }}</ref> In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.<ref>{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | volume=CXIX | issue=105 | newspaper=Evening Post | accessdate=24 August 2014 | page=4}}</ref> He was promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1943, in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East between May and October 1942.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=35908 |date=18 February 1943 |page=857 |supp=y }}</ref> In 1953, Stout was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |author-link1=Alister Taylor |author-link2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=421}}</ref> and in the 1962 New Year Honours he was appointed a Knight Bachelor, for services to medicine and education.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=42554 |date=1 January 1962 |page=39 |supp=y }}</ref>

Stout was conferred with an honorary LLD by the University of New Zealand in 1961.<ref name="Shadows"/>

== Works == * [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2PMed.html Medical Services in New Zealand and The Pacific] * [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Medi.html New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy] * [http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Surg.html War Surgery and Medicine]

== References == {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/war-memorial/online-cenotaph/record/C56279 Thomas Duncan McGregor Stout] at Online Cenotaph * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130210141444/http://ccdhb.org.nz/hhist/Staff/StoutTDM_19011920.html Capital & Coast District Health Board] * [http://www.stamplink.com/genealogy/pearce/d1286.htm Genealogy] * [http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications_page.asp?ItemID=1367 Squadron Leader Robert Edward Stout] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818131254/http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/alumni/publications_page.asp?ItemID=1367 |date=18 August 2011 }} * Obituary: New Zealand Medical Journal 1979 89:228

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