“I always thought I could speak till now, but language fails me, and I can only say that I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
About William Thom
c. December 1798–29 February 1848
William Thom was born in Aberdeen, probably in December 1798, though sources have variously placed his birth in 1798, 1799, or 1800. The uncertainty is not trivial: it reflects the precarious position from which he emerged, a position in which the lives of poor urban families were not always recorded with the…