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Joseph John Thomson was born on 18 December 1856 in ... His parents planned to enroll him as an apprentice ... who became an author, writing children's books, ...
Elizabeth Burns, Elizabeth Park or Mrs John Thomson [2] known as Betty Burns, was born in 1791 in Leith, Scotland. She was the illegitimate daughter of Robert Burns and Anna Park who was a barmaid at The Globe in Dumfries. [1] She married John Thomson in 1808 to become Elizabeth Thomson. [3]
James Claude "Jim" Thomson Jr. (b. Princeton , New Jersey, September 14, 1931 d. August 11, 2002) was an American historian and journalist who served in the government, taught at Harvard and Boston Universities, served as curator of the Neiman Foundation for Journalism .
A copper plaque by Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland.The Kirk is situated below Arthur's Seat and next to Duddingston Loch. "Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman.
They lived together at Langloan for about sixty years, and had a family of ten children, seven sons and three daughters, all of whom she taught to read, starting with the alphabet. [3] John Hamilton's sister (Margaret Hamilton) married Thomas Shanks. From this line of descendants Janet has many living great-great-great-grandnieces and nephews ...
Thompson was born Flora Jane Timms in Juniper Hill in northeast Oxfordshire, the eldest child of Albert and Emma Timms, a stonemason and nursemaid respectively. [1] Albert and Emma had twelve children, but only six survived childhood. [2] One of her younger sisters was Betty Timms, best known for her children's book The Little Grey Men of the Moor.
O.J.'s youngest child is his son Justin, 33, whom he had with Nicole. Justin was just 5 years old when his mother was killed. Like his sister Sydney, Justin now works as a real estate agent in St ...
Thomson was born in Cambridge, England, the son of physicist and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson and Rose Elisabeth Paget, daughter of George Edward Paget.Thomson went to The Perse School, Cambridge before going on to read mathematics and physics at Trinity College, Cambridge, until the outbreak of World War I in 1914, when he was commissioned into the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment.