Sir Edward Deas Thomson (1800 - 1879), by Freeman Studio, courtesy of State Library of New South Wales. ON 6/25x30/Box 24. .Image Details

THOMSON, Sir EDWARD DEAS (1800-1879), public servant and parliamentarian, was born on 1 June 1800 in Edinburgh, the youngest son of Sir John Deas Thomson, sometime accountant-general of the navy, and his wife Rebecca, the daughter of John Freer of South Carolina. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and at Harrow, and for two years at a college at Caen, Normandy, where he gained a facility in French which he kept throughout his life. Thomson returned to London to become a clerk in the firm of Inglis, Forbes & Co. He assisted his father in the Navy Office in a variety of ways, including the introduction of double entry book-keeping. He also attended lectures on political economy by the Scottish writer, J. R. McCulloch, whose ideas ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography