John Thom (curler)
John Thom is the name of: * John Thom (soldier) (1891–1941), British lieutenant-colonel, judge and politician * John Hamilton Thom (1808–1894), Irish Unitarian minister * John Nichols Thom John Nichols Tom (sometimes spelt Thom; 1799 – 31 May 1838) was a Cornish wine-merchant and maltster who re-invented himself as Sir William Courtenay, stood for parliament in Canterbury, was convicted of perjury in a smuggling case, spent thr ...

John Thom (soldier)
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gibb Thom DSO MC (1 August 1891 – 19 February 1941) was a British soldier, judge and politician from Linlithgow. Thom served with the Gordon Highlanders, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917, and later that year received the Distinguished Service Order for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty". He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire in 1926, losing the 1929 election but returning to office in 1931, where he stayed until resigning a year later. In 1937 he was knighted as part of the New Years Honours, and was also made Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Allahabad Allahabad (), officially known as Prayagraj, also known as Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The other five cities were: Agra, Kanpur (Cawnpore), Lucknow, Meerut, and Varanasi (Benares). It is the administrat ..., a position he held until his death in 1941, aged 49.''Indian Annual Register, 1941'' Refe ...
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John Hamilton Thom
John Hamilton Thom (10 January 1808 – 2 September 1894) was an Irish Christian Unitarianism, Unitarian minister. Life He was a younger son of John Thom (died 1808), born on 10 January 1808 at Newry, County Down, where his father, a native of Lanarkshire, was English Presbyterianism, Presbyterian minister from 1800. His mother was Martha Anne (1779–1859), daughter of Isaac Glenny. He married (2 January 1838) Hannah Mary (1816–1872), second daughter of William Rathbone V. Ministry In 1823 he was admitted at the Belfast Academical Institution as a student under the care of the Armagh presbytery. He became assistant to Thomas Dix Hincks as a teacher of classics and Hebrew, while studying theology under Samuel Hanna. The writings of William Ellery Channing made him a Unitarian; he did not join the Irish remonstrants under Henry Montgomery (remonstrant), Henry Montgomery, but preached his first sermon in July 1829 at Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel, Liverpool, and shortly afterwa ...
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