In 1952, Scottish poet Derick Thomson concluded that Macpherson had collected Scottish Gaelic ballads, employing scribes to record those that were preserved orally and collating manuscripts, but had adapted them by altering the original characters and ideas, and had introduced a great deal of his own.

Derick S. Thomson.

Derick S. Thomson.

* Derick Thomson MacThòmais ( poet )

He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the isle of Lewis at the age of two, where he and his two brothers were brought up by their widowed mother in the small crofting town of Bayble, which also produced Derick Thomson.

Friend and poet Edwin Morgan notes that unlike his contemporaries ( such as Sorley Maclean and Derick Thomson ), Crichton Smith was more prolific in English than in Gaelic, perhaps viewing his writing in what, from Crichton Smith's view, was an imposed non-native language as a challenge to English and American poets.

James Thomson Callender, a Scottish citizen, had been expelled from Great Britain for his political writings.

* 1982 – Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer

* 1700 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( d. 1748 )

* 1976 – Paul Thomson, Scottish drummer ( Franz Ferdinand, Correcto, and The Yummy Fur )

* September 5 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer ( b. 1909 )

* August 20 – Dudley D. Watkins, Scottish illustrator for D. C. Thomson & Co. Best known for Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Dandy, The Beano, and The Topper.

* November 15 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1869 )

* August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( b. 1700 )

* September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet ( d. 1748 )

Haggard also owed a considerable debt to Joseph Thomson, the Scottish explorer whose book Through Masai Land was a hit in January 1885.

In 1742 a Scottish trader named John Fraser ( frontiersman ) from eastern Pennsylvania acquired land at the location of the current Edgar Thomson Steel Works from Queen Aliquippa and the Lenape people.

* August 27-James Thomson, Scottish poet ( born 1700 )

Thanks to this result, this Australian team, managed by the English Terry Venables and not by the Scottish Oceania Champion Eddie Thomson, took part to the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup in Saudi Arabia, finishind second losing the final match against Brazil.

Oor Wullie is a Scottish comic strip published in the D. C. Thomson newspaper The Sunday Post.

Commissioned by Renfrew District Council to mark Paisley's 500th anniversary as a burgh of barony, it was premiered on 6 August 1988 in Paisley Abbey with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Bryden Thomson.

Scottish Television was founded by Canadian businessman Roy Thomson ( later Lord Thomson ) in association with the Theatre Royal's owners Howard & Wyndham Ltd. Thomson invited Canadian television producer Rai Purdy to become the station's first head of programming.

Lord Thomson was also criticised, for using much of the profits generated by Scottish Television to further gain his interests in the newspaper industry, rather than reinvesting into the station.

* Billy Thomson ( born 1958 ), Scottish footballer

Two years after he was granted the patent Dunlop was officially informed that it was invalid as Scottish inventor Robert William Thomson ( 1822 – 1873 ), had patented the idea in France in 1846 and in the US in 1847.

* Charles Thomson Rees Wilson ( 1869 – 1959 ), Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize winner

Scottish Gaelic also has the shorter saying " Clann MhicTamhais " ( Thomson / MacTavish's children / clan ).

James Thomson ( poet ) | James Thomson, whose work The Seasons was the subject of Millar v Taylor.

Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).

The poet James Thomson, in his poem The Seasons, praised Sidney as " the British Cassius ", the hero " warmed " by " ancient learning to the enlightened love / Of ancient freedom ".

One of his first official acts was to deprive the poet James Thomson of a small office conferred on him by Talbot.

Among his contemporaries Talbot enjoyed the reputation of a wit ; he was a patron of the poet James Thomson, who in The Seasons commemorated a son of his to whom he acted as tutor ; and Butler dedicated his famous Analogy to the lord chancellor.

James Thomson ( poet ) | James Thomson, from the 1779 edition of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.

Thom Gunn, born Thomson William Gunn ( 29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004 ), was an Anglo-American poet who was praised both for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement and his later poetry in America, even after moving toward a looser, free-verse style.

" Thomson did not attempt again to make payments until, close to the end of his life, the dying poet desperately begged him for a further five pounds.

Once Burns had stated his wishes Thomson rarely argued back, but sometimes made alterations without consulting the poet and ignored the request of Burns to return unsuitable songs for Johnson to put into print.

* Robert Riccaltoun s: Riccaltoun, Robert ( DNB00 ) ( 1691 – 1769 ) Scottish Presbyterian divine and friend of the poet James Thomson ( 1700-1748 )

* James Thomson ( poet ) ( 1700-1748 ) Scottish poet and playwright besy known for his masterpiece The Seasons and the lyrics of Rule, Britannia!

* John Thomson ( minister ), minister in Sutherland, Scotland who was responsible for recording the works of the poet Rob Donn

* James Thomson ( poet ) ( 1700 – 1748 ), Scottish poet and playwright

* James Thomson ( weaver poet ) ( 1763 – 1832 ), Scottish poet