Joseph Watson was trained as a teacher of the Deaf under Thomas Braidwood and he eventually left in 1792 to become the headmaster of the first public school for the Deaf in Britain, the London Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb in Bermondsey.

The town was named after Dr Thomas Braidwood Wilson.

* Thomas Braidwood Wilson ( 1792 – 1843 ), Scottish explorer, medical practitioner and settler after whom Wilson Inlet in Western Australia is named

* Thomas Braidwood ( 1715 – 1806 ), founder of a school for the deaf in Scotland

* Thomas Braidwood Wilson ( 1792-1843 ), an Australian surgeon and explorer

: For the Scottish teacher, see Thomas Braidwood.

The river was discovered in 1829 by the naval doctor Thomas Braidwood Wilson, the first white man to explore the area.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

The diplomat Thomas Randolph recorded the " merry tales " rumoured about his methods still current in Edinburgh nine years later.

London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1953.

Thomas Chalmers statue, Edinburgh

Thomas Young's work is acknowledged in Champollion's 1822 Lettre à M. Dacier, but incompletely, according to British critics: for example, James Browne, a sub-editor on the Encyclopædia Britannica ( which had published Young's 1819 article ), contributed anonymously a series of review articles to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, praising Young's work highly and alleging that the " unscrupulous " Champollion plagiarised it.

Thomas Sean Connery, named Thomas after his grandfather, was born in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, to Euphemia McBain " Effie " ( née McLean ), a cleaning woman, and Joseph Connery, a factory worker and lorry driver.

His will left bequests to Southey ( who would later write Telford ’ s biography ), the poet Thomas Campbell ( 1777 – 1844 ) and to the publishers of the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia ( to which he had been a contributor ).

A large garrison was installed, 325 strong in 1300, and Edward brought up his master craftsmen from the Welsh castles, including Thomas de Houghton and Master Walter of Hereford, both of whom travelled from Wales to Edinburgh in the first years of the century.

* Thomas Brown ( 1778 – 1820 ), Scottish moral philosopher and philosopher of mind ; jointly held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University with Dugald Stewart

On 3 October 1754, Robert Adam in the company of his brother James ( who went as far as Brussels ) set off from Edinburgh for his Grand Tour, stopping for a few days in London, where they visited the Mansion House, London, St Stephen Walbrook, St Paul's Cathedral, Windsor, Berkshire, in the company of Thomas Sandby who showed them his landscaping at Windsor Great Park and Virginia Water Lake.

In 1833, the four-arched Dean Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford and 106 feet above the water level, was opened to carry the Queensferry Road over the Dean Gorge, almost at the sole expense of Mr John Learmonth Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

In particular, George Dunbar's brother John Dunbar, the Lord of Fife who lost his claim on Fife and Sir Robert Erskine's son, Sir Thomas Erskine who lost control of Edinburgh Castle.

Grant also advocates that the demonstration was aimed at father and son Robert and Thomas Erskine who held the castles of Edinburgh, Stirling and Dumbarton from Robert's predecessor.

Since the Spring of 1850 De Quincey had been a regular contributor to an Edinburgh periodical called Hogg's Weekly Instructor whose publisher, James Hogg, undertook to publish Selections Grave and Gay from Writings Published and Unpublished by Thomas De Quincey.

* Elizabeth Cockburn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 30 June 1826-6 April 1908 ), married in Edinburgh, Midlothian, on 27 December 1848 Thomas Cleghorn ( Edinburgh, Midlothian, 3 March 1818-18 June 1874 ), a practising Advocate

* 2009 – 2010 Harry Allen ( University College London ), Mary O ' Hara ( Cambridge University ), Rebecca Thomas ( Edinburgh University )

Thomas Hamilton ( architect ) | Thomas Hamilton's design for the Royal High School ( Edinburgh ) | Royal High School, Edinburgh, 1831, RSA.

* Homer and his Forerunners ( Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, 1955 )

When he turned twenty-one, Danish artist Fritz Melbye, then living on St. Thomas, inspired Pissarro to take on painting as a full-time profession, becoming his teacher and friend.

Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, in Wales, on 27 October 1914, to David John Thomas ( 1876 – 1952 ), a teacher, and Florence Hannah ( née Williams ) ( 1882 – 1958 ), a seamstress.

Watt's grandfather, Thomas Watt, was a mathematics teacher and baillie to the Baron of Cartsburn.

In 1823 Audubon took lessons in oil painting technique from John Steen, a teacher of American landscape, and history painter Thomas Cole.

* 1774 – Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer ( d. 1857 )

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

The teacher at the center of proceedings, John Scopes | John Thomas Scopes.

* March 13 – Dunblane massacre: Unemployed former shopkeeper Thomas Hamilton walks into the Dunblane Primary School in Scotland and opens fire, killing 16 infant school pupils and one teacher before fatally shooting himself.

* March 30 – Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher ( b. 1815 )

While there, she translated Thomas Aquinas ' De Veritate ( On Truth ) into German and familiarized herself with Roman Catholic philosophy in general and tried to bridge the phenomenology of her former teacher Husserl to Thomism.

His parents were Thomas Sullivan ( 1805 – 1866 ), a military bandmaster, clarinettist and music teacher born in Ireland and raised in Chelsea, London, and Mary Clementina ( née Coghlan, 1811 – 1882 ), English born, of Irish and Italian descent.

His principal teacher there was John Goss, whose own teacher, Thomas Attwood, had been a pupil of Mozart.

When in 1832 he read Philosophy of a Future State by the science teacher, amateur astronomer and church minister Thomas Dick, he found the rationale he needed to reconcile faith and science, and apart from the Bible this book was perhaps his greatest philosophical influence.

Other significant influences in his early life were Thomas Burke, a Blantyre evangelist and David Hogg, his Sabbath School teacher.

Late authors Shel Silverstein and William Styron also lived on the Vineyard, as did writer, journalist and teacher John Hersey, poet and novelist Dorothy West and artist Thomas Hart Benton Various writers have been inspired by the island — including the mystery writer Philip Craig who set several novels on the island.

* Thomas Sheridan ( actor ) ( 1719 – 1788 ), Irish actor, theatre manager and elocution teacher

Following the Civil War, Thomas Jefferson Mayo moved to Paintsville to fulfill a role as a gifted and talented teacher.

It was probably through the print-seller that John met a local man, Thomas Harvey ( of Old Catton, Norfolk ), through whom he was able to set up as a drawing teacher.

On leaving school Thomas became a pupil teacher, first in Trealaw and then in Fanshawe Crescent School, Dagenham, Essex, after which he did a two-year teacher-training course at University College, Southampton.

He continued to be engrossed in music, and in Jacksonville he met Thomas Ward, who became his teacher in counterpoint and composition.