Person

Thomson, David Purdie

1821–1864

Jessie Denoon Young, married David Purdie Thomson (1821-64), a newly-qualified doctor, in 1844. Thomson, son of a high-class Edinburgh confectioner, graduated from Edinburgh University in 1843, and became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (LRCSE), a major additional qualification, in the same year (Med Reg1863, 388; NA, MH/12/5970/156, f.286r). Thomson and his wife moved to Liverpool, and their eldest daughter Jane E Thomson was born in 1845