Thomas Brushfield (1858–1937) was an English psychiatrist who worked in the field of intellectual disability. He is remembered for describing Brushfield spots,[1] and was the medical superintendent of the Fountain Hospital for Imbeciles, Tooting, from 1914 to 1927. He died on 17 May 1937, aged 79.[2]
He was the son of Thomas Nadauld Brushfield (1828–1910), a noted authority in the same field and expert on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh.[3]