Thomson, William ♂
Education
Student United College 1761-1765 b, s, t, m. (Ternar). Luminator Mathematics class. M.A. 6.5.1765.
Student St Mary’s College 1765-1767, 1768-1772. Exchequer bursar, 1767. Foundation bursar, 1770. 4th class prize, 1771.
Birth/childhood
Born 6.10.1745 son of Matthew Thomson, carpenter, Forteviot and [Ann] Miller.
Career
Protégé of the Earl of Kinnoul, Chancellor of the University . Librarian, Dupplin Castle.
Also at Edinburgh University,
Licensed by St Andrews presbytery 1772.
Minister Monzievaird 1776-1778 (demitted).
Went to London and devoted himself to literary pursuits. Edited Annual Register. [Editor]
LL.D. Glasgow 1783.
Publications
Death
Died 16.2.1817.
Sources
- UYSM400/1/275, 280 - erroneously called ‘James’
- UYUY452/8/25
- D.D. testimonial Robert Blair 1802
- Gentleman's Magazine 1804 593, 1817 647
- Ann. Biog. and Obit. 1818 p74 - 117
- DNB