Thom

Thom, WILLIAM, author of The Mitherless Bairn and other poems in the Scottish vernacular, was born at Aberdeen in 1799, worked as a handloom weaver there, at Inverurie, and elsewhere, and, after a life of much poverty and distress, died at Hawkhill near Dundee, 28th February 1848. His collected poems were first published in 1845 (new ed., with a memoir, Paisley, 1880).