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'''William Paterson Loudon Thomson''' OBE, MA, M.Univ., Dip.Ed., FSA Scot (b. 1933, Ayrshire - d. 6 Jul 2016, Aberdeen) was a historian and [[Lerwick Town Councillor]]. 

He was educated at Dundee and the University of St Andrews. He was the first teacher of geography at the [[Anderson Educational Institute]], [[Lerwick]], in 1958, and became headmaster at Kirkwall Grammar School in 1971. He was a [[Lerwick Town Council|town councillor]] in [[Lerwick]] from 1968-1971. He is author of a very fine [[History of Orkney]] (1987), later ''New History of Orkney'' (2001, 2008), which contains much of interest for students of [[Shetland]]. Thomson has taken a special interest in the problem of runrig agriculture in [[Shetland]] and Orkney. He dealt with the subject first in a pioneering article 'Funzie, [[Fetlar]]: a Shetland run-rig township in the nineteenth century', ''Scottish Geographical Magazine'', 86, 1970; he has returned to it in his recent collection of essays ''Orkney Land and People'' (2008).

==Political Career==
*[[Lerwick Town Council Election May 1968]]

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