John Thomson

John Thomson
Born	1837
Died	1921
Residence	Singapore c/o John Simpson Esq., Messrs Duncan and Flockhart, 52 North Bridge Edinburgh 70a Grosvenor Street, W [1892]
Occupation	photographer
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1894.01 last listed elected_ESL 1866 elected_AI 1866 1892.11.08 societies Royal Geographical Society

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check - he might have taken the photo of the king of siam in the barnard davis album, and possibly others in it

1892.10.23 proposed for election at next meeting

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John Thomson (14 June 1837 – 29 September 1921) was a pioneering Scottish photographer, geographer and traveller. He was one of the first photographers to travel to the Far East, documenting the people, landscapes and artifacts of eastern cultures. Upon returning home, his work among the street people of London cemented his reputation, and is regarded as a classic instance of social documentary which laid the foundations for photojournalism. He went on to become a portrait photographer of High Society in Mayfair, gaining the Royal Warrant in 1881.

Thomson had moved his studio from Buckingham Palace Road, Belgravia to Mayfair in the early 1880s and remained at 70a Grosvenor Street until 1905, when the studio moved to nearby New Bond Street

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External Publications

China: the land and its people, 1873

Through China with a camera, 1898

The antiquities of Cambodia

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original photos at Wellcome; also RGS