Thomson, WILLIAM — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Thomson, WILLIAM, Archbishop of York, was born 11th February 1819, and studied at Shrewsbury and Queen's College, Oxford. After holding various cures and acting as college tutor, he was in 1845 elected provost of his college. In 1861 he became Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, and in 1862 Archbishop of York. The best known of the works of this judicious and liberal-minded prelate is his Outline of the Laws of Thought (1848), which was followed by several collections of sermons and papers. He died on Christmas Day 1890. See the Quarterly Review for April 1892.