David Thomson [The Galashiels Poet]

(1774-1855)

LBT ID: DaThoms1855	B/BAP: 1774 DIED: 1855
SOURCES: Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Walter Scott
Galashiels artisan and amateur poet; he was an acquaintance of James Hogg.
REFERENCES TO David Thomson [The Galashiels Poet]: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1822-23 Found 2: ¶ 5 ¶ 6 Chapter IV 1825 Found 1: ¶ 66 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 10: 1821-24 Found 2: ¶ 37 ¶ 42 Chapter 12: 1821-25 Found 1: ¶ 47