William Thomson (physician)

[2] During his 11 years at the university, he also became a director of Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Gartnavel Mental Asylum.

[4] He went to Edinburgh to consult his medical friends on his condition, but died of cholera a few days later, on 12 May 1852.

The grave lies in the south-east section, just to the side of David Octavius Hill, who appears to have been his wife's cousin.

Their son John Thomson (1828-1866) gained fame as a civil engineer laying Transatlantic telegraph cables.

[5] He was half-brother to Allen Thomson, son of his father's second wife, who was also an eminent physician.