Arthur Landsborough Thomson

Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson CB OBE FRSE PZS LLD (8 October 1890 – 9 June 1977) was a Scottish medical researcher, mainly remembered as an amateur ornithologist and ornithological author and acknowledged expert on bird migration.

[1] He was born in Edinburgh on 8 October 1890 the son of John Arthur Thomson FRSE and his wife Margaret Stewart.

[4] Arthur then studied Natural History (under his own father) at Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1911.

In the First World War he served as a Lt Colonel in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

His proposers were James Ritchie, Sir David Wilkie (surgeon), Charles Henry O'Donoghue and William Kalman.