William Thom (poet)
William Thom (1799–1848) was a Scottish poet who wrote in the Scots language. He was author of The Mitherless Bairn and other works.
Thom was a native of Aberdeen, where he worked as a hand-loom weaver, enduring considerable hardship and poverty.
He was born in Sinclair's Close, Justice Port, Aberdeen in 1799 or 1800, and died in Dundee on 29 February 1848.
His most notable work is "Blind Boy's Pranks". In 1841 he published "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver".[1]
A biography of William Thom appears in the book, James Hogg by Sir George Douglas (Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1899) in the "Famous Scots Series".
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References
- ↑ Harmsworth Encyclopedia 1905
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