Seton Thomson, Esq.
(1834-1918)
23 February 1863

Volume 10, page 79, sitting number 12,684.

Identified in the Silvy daybooks as 'Seton Thompson, Esq.,' this is probably the marine insurance broker Seton Thomson. Although contemporary newspapers often gave his surname as 'Thompson,' official sources (including two censuses and the abstract of his will) spelt his surname 'Thomson.'

Born in or about 1834 at Nassau in the West Indies, on 30 December 1862 at Blythswood in Glasgow he married his cousin Elizabeth Anna Dennistoun, daughter of the prominent Glaswegian Alexander Dennistoun of Golfhill House, Glasgow.

The couple appear on the 1881 census living at Kinnaird House in Sterlingshire. At the time of the 1901 census, Seton Thomson was a widower staying at the Devonshire Club on St James's Street in London. 

He died, aged 84, on 30 September 1918 at Preston House, Linlithgow, West Lothian [Scotland]. According to a short report in The Scotsman (14 January 1919), the value of his various estates in England, Scotland and abroad totalled £174,791.