John Turnbull Thomson [SEP] date of birth
John Turnbull Thomson
John Turnbull Thomson (10 August 1821 – 16 October 1884) was a British civil engineer and artist who played an instrumental role in the development of the early infrastructure of nineteenth-century Singapore and New Zealand.
Biography.
Thomson was born at Glororum, Northumberland, England, the third child of Alexander Thomson and his wife, Janet, "née" Turnbull.
After his father was killed in a hunting accident in 1830, the young Thomson and his mother went to live in Abbey St.
, 1871.
- John Turnbull Thomson, "An Exposition of Processes and Results of the Survey System of Otago", Henry Wise & Company, 1875.
- John Turnbull Thomson, "Exploration and Travel in New Zealand", Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 1878.
- John Turnbull Thomson, "On the Cleansing of Towns", 1879.
- John Turnbull Thomson, "Ethnographical Considerations on the Whence of the Maori", Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 1871.
- John Turnbull