UCL

Gordon Augustus Thomson

Profile & Legacies Summary

1799 - 1886

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Ethnologist, great-nephew and heir of Robert Gordon of St Vincent (q.v.), from whom he inherited the Spring estate.

  1. Gordon Augustus Thomson has an entry in the Dictionary of Ulster Biography, which shows him as born in Belfast and living for a period in the West Indies, dying in Melbourne in 1886. 'The principal donor of ethnographical objects to the Ulster Museum in Belfast.'

Sources

  1. http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/1629 [accessed 09/06/2015] The Melbourne Argus carried an obituary 08/06/1886, http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/thomson-gordon-augustus-13917 [accessed 09/06/2015]; Winifred Glover, In the wake of Captain Cook: the travels of Gordon Augustus Thomson (1799-1886) http://www.booksireland.org.uk/store/all-departments/wake-captain-cook-travels-gordon-augustus-thomson-1799-1886 [accessed 09/06/2015].

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

Associated Claims (1)

St Vincent 645 (Spring Estate)
£2,003 14s 11d
Unsuccessful claimant (consensual) (Owner-in-fee)
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Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1829 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Heir
Spring Estate [ St Vincent ]

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Objets
'The principal donor of ethnographical objects to the Ulster Museum in... 
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Winifred Glover, In the wake of Captain Cook: the travels of Gordon Augustus Thomson (1799-1886)...

Relationships (2)

Gordon Augustus Thomson
Nephew → Uncle
Robert Gordon of St Vincent
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Gordon Augustus Thomson was the main beneficiary under the will of his uncle Robert Gordon of St...
Gordon Augustus Thomson
Brothers
John Thomson of Belfast
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