Thomas Boyle Grierson
1818–89
Physician and promoter of rural education. Founded museum at Thornhill, Dumfriesshire, circa 1852; co-founder of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society; president 1886–8.
Source
Gladstone 1913, Truckell 1966.
Bibliography
Gladstone, Hugh S. 1913. The history of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Dumfries: Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society.
Truckell, A. E. 1966. The Grierson collection, Thornhill, and its dispersal. Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society 3d ser. 43: 65–72.
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