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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]
Collectively, the Thomson family is the wealthiest family in Canada, and some members are included on the list of Canada's richest people, with Sherry Brydson – the only child of Irma Thomson, one of Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet's three children – holding the largest single stake (23.47%) in The Woodbridge Company, the family's ...
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.
She was the daughter of John Thomson, [2] furniture packer from Logie Pert in Forfarshire [3] and later a minister in the Church of Scotland [1] and his wife Ann Youngson, from Peterhead. [2] [3] The family continued to live in Cumberland Street until 1892, when they rented a flat in the newly built Comely Bank Avenue in Edinburgh. [3]
Plaque commemorating J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron outside the old Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge Autochrome portrait by Georges Chevalier, 1923 Thomson c. 1920–1925 Thomson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) [ 24 ] [ 49 ] and appointed to the Cavendish Professorship of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish ...
Thomson was born on 1 June 1860, in Coleraine, to tea merchant John Thomson (1822–1894) and shopkeeper Catherine (née Andrews) (d. 1871). [2] He was the eldest of their three surviving children. Although he had no formal artistic training, as a young boy he would often fill his schoolbooks with drawings of horses, dogs, and ships. [3]
Sophia Loren has had an incredible career throughout the years, yet her roles as “mom” and “grandma” might be her favorite ones yet. “I live for my family,” Loren told Today in 2016.
Thomas John "Tom" Thomson was born on August 5, 1877, in Claremont, Ontario, [8] the sixth of John and Margaret Thomson's ten children. [9] He was raised in Leith, Ontario, near Owen Sound, in the municipality of Meaford. [10] Thomson and his siblings enjoyed both drawing and painting, although he did not immediately display any major talents. [9]