James Thomson


1768 - 1855

Editor and clergyman. The elder brother of scientist Thomas Thomson (1773 - 1852), he served as a sub-editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1795-96). From 1805, he served as parish minister in Eccles (Berwickshire, Scottish Borders).


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