William Aird Thomson

William Aird Thomson (1773-17 March 1863) was a Scottish minister and antiquarian who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1835.

[1] He was born on 28 January 1773 in the manse at Sanquhar the son of Rev Dr John Thomson DD.

[4] The parish was at that time one of three contained within the large St John's Church in the city centre.

In 1841 their daughter Mary Anne Thomson married Walter Glass of Smiddiegreen who committed suicide by shooting himself in the head two months after the wedding.

Her sister Helen Mary Thomson married Prof Patrick Campbell Macdougall of the University of Edinburgh.