| Detail | [Pages 202-206. At Kilmun, Argyleshire. Born 12 April 1773 at Crieff, 7th child of John Thomson and Elizabeth Ewan. In 1846 ""the dangerous illness of his second son, from disease contracted in India, hurried him for the winter to Nice"". He married in 1816 Miss Agnes Colquhoun, dau. of Mr Colquhoun, distiller, near Stirling. ""He has left a son, Dr Thomas Thomson, of the Bengal army, the author of Travels in Tibet, about to appear -- the result of several years' researches into the botany and physical structure of the Himalaya Mountains; and a daughter, married to her cousin, Dr R.D. Thomson""] |