George Thomson may refer to:
Government and politics
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George Thomson (MP for Southwark)
George Thomson (c. 1607–1691) was an English merchant and Parliamentarian soldier, an official and politician.
Early life
He was a younger son of Robert Thomson of Watton, Hertfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John Harsflet or H ...
(c. 1607–1691), English merchant and Parliamentarian soldier, official and politician
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George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth
George Morgan Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, (16 January 1921 – 3 October 2008) was a British politician and journalist who served as a Labour MP. He was a member of Harold Wilson's cabinet, and later became a European Commissioner.
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(1921–2008), Scottish politician; former Labour MP and peer
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George Thomson (Canadian politician) (1855–1920), Scottish-born merchant, official and political figure in British Columbia
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George Walker Thomson
George Walker Thomson (1883 – 7 July 1949)''Labour: TUC Information Broadsheet'', vols.10-11, p.379 was a Scottish trade unionist.
Born in Glasgow, Thomson studied at Allan Glen's School and the Glasgow School of Art. During this time, h ...
(1883–1949), Scottish trade unionist
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George Thomson, Lord Thomson
George Reid Thomson, Lord Thomson, (1893 – 15 April 1962) was a Scottish Labour Party politician and judge.
Educated at the South African College, Cape Town, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he was a captain in the Argyll and Sutherland ...
(1893–1962), Scottish politician and judge
Sports
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George Thomson (footballer, born 1854)
George Frederick Thomson (baptized 28 September 1853Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. – 15 May 1937) was a Welsh amateur footballer who helped found the Druids club and played for Wales in their first two intern ...
(1854–1937), Wales international footballer
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George Thomson (rugby) (1856–1899), English rugby union footballer who played in the 1870s and 1880s
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George C. Thomson (1888–1976), American football player, lawyer and banker
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George Thomson (footballer, born 1936)
George Matthewson Thomson (19 October 1936 – July 2007) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian, Everton and Brentford as a utility player. He was capped by Scotland at schoolboy and U23 levels and made tw ...
(1936–2007), Scottish footballer (Hearts, Everton, Brentford)
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George Thomson (Scottish footballer) (fl. 1930s, Aberdeen)
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George Thomson (footballer, born 1992)
George Henry Thomson (born 19 May 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for side Harrogate Town.
Career
Born in Melton Mowbray, Thomson started his career at Nottingham Forest as a 12 year old in 2004 and was in ...
, English footballer
Military
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George Pirie Thomson
George Pirie Thomson (1887–1965) was a British Royal Navy officer. He is most well known for his work as Britain's Chief Press Censor during the Second World War.
Early years
Thomson was born on 30 January 1887 at Jabalpur in India. His p ...
(1887–1965), British naval officer and press censor
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George Thomson (RAF officer)
George Thomson DFC (born 3 October 1896, date of death unknown) was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 14 victories.
Born in Thornhill, Dumfries, Scotland, Thomson emigrated to Canada. Working as a printer in Celi ...
(1896–1918), Canadian World War I flying ace
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George Edwin Thomson
Captain George Edwin Thomson DSO MC (19 September 1897 – 23 May 1918) was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with 21 aerial victories. He was the second ranking ace of his squadron, and one of the leading Sopwith Camel aces.
Early l ...
(1897–1918), British World War I flying ace
Other
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George Thomson (physician)
George Thomson (c. 1619–1676) was an English physician, medical writer and pamphleteer. He was a leading figure in an attempt to create a "College of Chemical Physicians", a rival to the established Royal College of Physicians. He rejected the ...
(c. 1619–1676), English physician, medical writer and pamphleteer
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George Thomson (musician)
George Thomson (1757–1851), born at Limekilns, Fife, Scotland, was a noted collector of the music of Scotland, a music publisher, and a friend of Robert Burns. He was clerk to the board of trustees in Edinburgh for 60 years. His '' A Select ...
(1757–1851), Scottish musician; collector of the music of Scotland
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George Thomson (shipbuilder)
George Thomson (25 March 1815 – 29 June 1866) was a Scottish marine engineer and shipbuilder, born at Partick, Glasgow.
He served his apprenticeship with a Mr. Graham in Partick before entering the works of Mr. Robert Napier, where he q ...
(1815–1866), Scottish engineer and shipbuilder
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George Thomson (botanist)
George Thomson (26 May 1819 – 14 December 1878) was a Scottish missionary in Cameroon who collected plants to send to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and to the British Museum.
Thomson was born in Balfron, 16 miles north of Glasgow and trained ...
(1819–1878), Scottish missionary and plant collector
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George Thomson (naturalist)
George Malcolm Thomson (2 October 1848 – 25 August 1933) was a New Zealand scientist, educationalist, social worker and politician.
Biography
Born on 2 October 1848 in Calcutta, Thomson grew up in Scotland, being educated at the Edinbur ...
(1848–1933), New Zealand scientist, educationalist, social worker and politician
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George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (; 3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.
Education and early life
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(1892–1975), English physicist and Nobel laureate
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George Derwent Thomson
George Derwent Thomson ( ga, Seoirse Mac Tomáis; 1903 in Dulwich, London – 3 February 1987 in Birmingham) was an English classical scholar, Marxist philosopher, and scholar of the Irish language.
Classical scholar
Thomson studied Class ...
(1903–1987), English Marxist philosopher; Greek and Irish scholar
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George Malcolm Thomson (1899–1996)
George Malcolm Thomson (1899–1996) was a Scottish journalist and publicist for Scottish nationalism. He is now best known for the sectarian slant he adopted the 1930s, aimed at Irish-Scots, and as an activist working on behalf of the Scottish P ...
, Scottish journalist, author and nationalist
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George Thomson (rose breeder)
George Thomson is an Australian amateur rose breeder, known for creating disease-resistant roses tailored to the Australian climate.
Thomson was born in Scotland and trained with Alex Cocker of Cockers Roses in Aberdeen, also completing an a ...
, Scottish-born Australian rose breeder
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George Sutherland Thomson
George Sutherland Thomson FRSE FCS (1871–1958) was a 20th-century Scottish biochemist and scientific author, and an expert in the dairy industry.
Life
He was born in Scotland in 1871.
In 1903 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society ...
(1871–1958) dairy expert
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George Ritchie Thomson
Prof (Lt Col) George Ritchie Thomson Order of St Michael and St George, CMG FRSE LLD (18 November 1865–14 March 1946) was a 19th/20th century Scottish military surgeon and expert on tropical medicine who served in the Second Boer War and Fir ...
(1865–1946), Scottish military surgeon and expert on tropical medicine
See also
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George Thompson (disambiguation)
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