William Thom

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William Thom (1799-1848) was a minor Scottish vernacular poet, author of The Mitherless Bairn and other works. He was a native of Aberdeen, where he worked as a hand-loom weaver, enduring considerable hardship and poverty.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.