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unusual facts about George Thomson


1793 in poetry

George Thomson, A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice, published in four volumes from this year to 1799; Volume 1 has 59 songs by Robert Burns



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Brow, Dumfries and Galloway

Whilst at Brow he wrote several letters, including one on July 12th to George Thomson requesting £5 and one to James Burness in Montrose for £10.

Leckhampton, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

In contrast to Leckhampton House's suburban late-Victorianism, the George Thomson Building (named after the Nobel Prize-winning physicist George Paget Thomson, sometime master of the college) is an example of postwar modernism, designed by Sir Philip Dowson of Arup Associates.