{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "DNB vol.56 says:\r\n\"Of the numerous works written or edited by Thomson the chief are: 1. \u2018Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa,\u2019 1782. 2. \u2018The Man in the Moon,\u2019 a satirical novel after the manner of Swift, 1783. 3. \u2018History of Great Britain from the Revolution of 1688 to the Accession of George I,\u2019 2 vols. 4to, 1787, from the Latin manuscript of Alexander Cunningham (1654\u20131737) [q. v.] 4. \u2018Memoirs of the War in Asia from 1780 to 1784,\u2019 2 vols. 1788. 5. \u2018Appeal to the People on behalf of Warren Hastings,\u2019 1788. 6. \u2018Mammuth, or Human Nature displayed on a grand scale, in a Tour with the Tinkers into the Central Parts of Africa,\u2019 1789. 7. \u2018A Tour in England and Scotland by an English Gentleman,\u2019 1789, enlarged into \u2018Prospects and Observations on a Tour in England and Scotland, by Thomas Newte, Esq.,\u2019 1791. 8. \u2018Memoirs of Sergeant Donald Macleod,\u2019 1791. 9. \u2018Travels into Denmark, Norway, and Sweden,\u2019 by Andrew Swinton, 1792. 10. \u2018Introduction to the Trial of Mr. Hastings,\u2019 1796. 11. \u2018Memoirs relative to Military Tactics,\u2019 1805. 12. \u2018Travels in Scotland by James Hall,\u2019 illustrated, 1807.\r\n\r\nThomson also continued Goldsmith's \u2018History of Greece;\u2019 expanded in 1793 Buchanan's \u2018Travels in the Hebrides;\u2019 translated \u2018Travels to the North Cape,\u2019 from the Italian of Acerbi; compiled under the name of Harrison a commentary on the Bible; and edited \u2018Narrative of an Expedition against the revolted Negroes of Surinam,\u2019 by John Gabriel Stedman. A five-act tragedy, \u2018Caledonia, or the Clans of Yore,\u2019 appeared posthumously in 1818. Thomson prepared from 1790 to 1800 the historical part of Dodsley's \u2018Annual Register.\u2019 From 1794 to December 1796 he owned \u2018The English Review,\u2019 and largely furnished its contents. When he relinquished the ownership it was incorporated with the \u2018Analytical Review\u2019 [see Johnson, Joseph]. He also wrote for the \u2018European Magazine,\u2019 the \u2018Political Herald,\u2019 the \u2018Oracle,\u2019 and the \u2018Whitehall Evening Post.\u2019\""}, "name": "William Thomson", "links": [{"url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Thomson,_William_(1746-1817)_(DNB00)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "DNB Vol.56"}], "personal_name": "Thomson, William", "death_date": "1817", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2018-06-22T20:25:47.270882"}, "latest_revision": 3, "key": "/authors/OL646192A", "birth_date": "1746", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 3}