Spencer Campbell Thomson

Spencer Campbell Thomson FRSE FFA (1842–1931) was a Scottish actuary and influential businessman.

He graduated BA in 1865 and immediately joined Standard Life as a clerk (at age 23), although within the year was promoted to actuarial assistant, and then joint-actuary in 1865.

[2] In 1870, aged only 28, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being Sir Robert Christison.

This incorporated the pediment of David Bryce's original office of 1839, and the residential flat on the top floor (where he was born).

[10] Spencer Thomson retired in 1904,[11] at the age of 64, and was succeeded as manager by Leonard Walter Dixon.