William Taylour Thomson

Sir William Taylour Thomson KCMG CB (1813–1883) was a British military officer and diplomat.

[1] He was the British chargé d'affaires to Persia between 1849 and 1855 and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary between 1872 and 1879.

He retired to Edinburgh living at 27 Royal Terrace, an impressive Georgian townhouse on Calton Hill.

[3] He died on 15 September 1883 and is buried in Warriston Cemetery in an unusual double sarcophagus next to his wife.

The grave lies on the north side of a main diagonal path just south of the vaults.

The unusual twin grave of William Taylour Thomson and his wife, Warriston Cemetery , Edinburgh