Surname: Thomson Forename(s): James b. 1825. Nationality: Scottish.
Working-class poet. Born in the village of Rothes at Speyside. Father was a crofter.
Received little formal education. Worked as a herder and then a gardener. Author of
The Captain Chief, a Tale of Flodden Field (1871) and Northumbria; The Captain Chief, and Other Poems (1881). Biographical information: David Herschell Edwards, Modern Scottish Poets, D. H. Edwards, 1887; Goodridge. (AC)