George William Thomson Omond
Born(1846-09-13)13 September 1846
Craigentor, Crieff, Perthshire, U.K.
Died18 June 1929(1929-06-18) (aged 82)
U.K.
Pen nameG.W.T. Omond
Occupation
  • Lawyer
  • advocate
  • writer
  • historian
  • biographer
NationalityScottish
GenreNon-fiction, biography, history, Scottish law
SpouseMargaret Isabella Alice Wright
Childrenone son and three daughters

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 Monzie, 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

Publications

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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: A. & C. 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: A. & C. Black, 1903.
  • Bruges and West Flanders, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: A. & C. Black, 1906.
  • Brabant and East Flanders, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: A. & C. Black, 1907.
  • Liège and the Ardennes, painted by Amédée Forestier, London: A. & C. Black, [1908].
  • Belgium, illustrated by Amédée Forestier, London: A. & C. Black, Series: Peeps at Many Lands, 1908.
  • 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

References

  1. ↑ Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
  2. ↑ As stated in his Who was Who entry
  3. ↑ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1880
  4. ↑ Biography adapted from his Who was Who entry available online.
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