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VIII.—Charles Wyville Thomson CHARLES WYVILLE THOMSON was bom at Bonsyde, a small property in Linlithgowshire, which had been long in his family, on the 5th of March, 1830, All his early associations were with Edinburgh; his father was a surgeon in the East India Company's service, and spent most of his life abroad; but his grandfather was a distinguished Edinburgh clergyman, and his great-grandfather was “Principall Clerke of Chancellary” at the time of the rebellion of 1745.
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Scientific Worthies . Nature 14, 85–87 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014085a0
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