William Taylour Thomson

He was the British chargé d'affaires to Persia between 1849 and 1855 and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary between 1872 and 1879.^[2] He was succeeded by his younger brother Ronald Ferguson Thomson.

He retired to Edinburgh living at 27 Royal Terrace, an impressive Georgian townhouse on Calton Hill.^[3]

He died on 15 September 1883 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery in an unusual double sarcophagus next to his wife. The grave lies on the north side of a main diagonal path just south of the vaults.

• The Edinburgh Gazette, February 25, 1873