William Erskine Thomson

William Erskine Thomson (23 February 1875 – 13 April 1962) was a Scottish architect prominent in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.

Thomson was born in Edinburgh in 1875, the son of William, a wine and spirit merchant, and Margaret.

[1] In November 1891, he was articled to Peter Lyle Barclay Henderson, with whose practice he remained for just over five years.

[1] In 1932, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

His nominators were Donald Alexander Stewart and Robert Matthew Mitchell of Perth and William Salmond of Dundee.

A view north from in front of Thomson's former practice at 36 George Street in Perth. Only the Thomas Hay Marshall monument section of Perth Museum and Art Gallery existed at the time; the southern portion was added in the 1930s