George William Thomson Omond

George William Thomson Omond MA FRHistS (1846–1929) was a Scottish advocate and a prolific writer of history books.

Life[]

Royal Circus, Edinburgh

He was born at Craigentor, near Crieff, Perthshire on 13 September 1846. His father was the Rev. John Reid Omond (1804-1892) from Orkney, minister of the Free Church of Scotland at the parish of , Perthshire, and his mother Margaret Jane Thomson.^[1]

George was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in 1868 with first class honours in classics and second class in philosophy. He was a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was created Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Couronne (Belgium) for his books on that country.^[2]

In Edinburgh he lived at 32 Royal Circus in the New Town.^[3]

He died on 18 June 1929.^[4]

Family[]

He married Margaret Isabella Alice Wright on 23 July 1878 at Edinburgh, and they had one son and three daughters.

Career[]

• 1871 - Called to the Scottish Bar as an advocate
• 1885 – Appointed Advocate Depute
• 1886 – Contested West Perthshire constituency in the general election of 1886. He stood as a Liberal Party candidate but was defeated by the standing Liberal Unionist Member of Parliament.

Publications[]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: George William Thomson Omond

• The Merchant Shipping Acts, 1854 to 1876. With notes, and index, and an appendix of relative statutes, etc, Edinburgh, 1877.
• The Lord Advocates of Scotland, from the close of the fifteenth century to the passing of the Reform Bill, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1883
• The Arniston Memoirs: Three centuries of a Scottish house, 1571-1838, Edited from the family papers, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1887.
• Miserrima, [A novel], London : T.F. Unwin, 1895.
• The Story of Maurice Lestrange, Being an account of his travels and adventures in Scotland during the year 1765, London : Adam & Charles Black, 1896.
• The Barton House Conspiracy: a tale of 1886, Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, [1896.]
• Fletcher of Saltoun, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1897, ("Famous Scots Series")
• The Early History of the Scottish Union Question, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1897.
• The Boers in Europe: A Sidelight on History, London: Adam & Charles Black, 1903.
• Bruges and West Flanders, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: Adam & Charles Black: London, 1906.
• Brabant and East Flanders, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: Adam & Charles Black: London, 1907.
• Liège and the Ardennes, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: A. & C. Black, [1908].
• Belgium, illustrated by Amédée Forestier, London: Adam & Charles Black, Series: Peeps at Many Lands, 1907.
• The Lord Advocates of Scotland. Second series, 1834-1880, London: Andrew Melrose, 1914.
• The Law of the Sea: A Short History of Some Questions Relating to Neutral Merchant Shipping, 1756-1916, London: A. & C. Black, 1916.
• The Wielingen dispute through British eyes, 1920.
• 'The Scheldt and the Wielingen', in Transactions of the Grotius Society, Vol. 6, Problems of Peace and War, Papers Read before the Society in the Year 1920, pp. 80–88.
• Belgium and Luxembourg, [with maps], London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923, Series: Nations of Today.

Sources[]

• Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U214964
• www.bl.uk
• www.openlibrary.org
• www.worldcat.org

References[]

External links[]

• Works by George William Thomson Omond at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George William Thomson Omond at Internet Archive