Thomas Croxen Archer

[3] Archer was Superintendent and then Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland, from 1860 to 1864.

[4][5] He then became the first Director of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, a post he held from 1864 until his death in 1885.

[6] On 27 December 1841, he married Mary Eleanor Salmon (1818-1879) at St. Paul's, Deptford, London.

[8] In 1861, he was living at 46 Gilmore Place, with his wife Mary Eleanor Archer, seven children and two other people.

He died on 19 February 1885 and is buried in Grange Cemetery in south Edinburgh.