Thomas Thomson (advocate)
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Thomas Thomson FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish advocate, antiquarian and archivist who served as Principal Clerk of Session and as secretary of the literary section of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Thomas Thomson, a portrait by Robert Scott Lauder
Medallion head of Thomas Thomson in Dean Cemetery
The grave of Thomas Thomson, Dean Cemetery
John Thomson of Duddingston
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Rev John Thomson FRSE HonRSA was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and noted amateur landscape painter. He was the minister of Duddingston Kirk from 1805 to 1840.
Thomas Thomson (advocate)
…manse on 10 November 1768, the eldest son of Rev Thomas Thomson, minister of Dailly in Ayrshire, and his second wife, Mary, daughter of Francis Hay. John Thomson was a younger brother. After attending the parish school of Dailly, he entered the University of Glasgow at age 13, where he graduated with an MA on…
John Thomson by Henry Raeburn
Loch-an-Eilean, Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, 1835, Tate Gallery
Thomson sketched while working outdoors by his friend, Thomas Dick Lauder, 1831, National Gallery of Scotland
Memorial window to Rev John Thomson, Duddingston Kirk