became lecturer in and subsequently Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, retiring in 1841. In 1820, he identified a new zeolite mineral, named thomsonite in his honour. He lived his final years at 8 Brandon Place in Glasgow. He died at Kilmun in Argyllshire in 1852, aged 79. He was buried at Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, and there is also a memorial for him at the Glasgow Necropolis. Family In 1816, he married Agnes Colquhoun. He was uncle and father-in-law to Robert Dundas Thomson. Honours Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1805) Fellow of the Royal Society, (1811) Artistic Recognition He was portrayed by John Graham Gilbert. Selected writings System of Chemistry (1802) The Elements of Chemistry (1810) History of the Royal Society, from its institution to the end of the eighteenth century (1812) An Attempt to Establish the First Principles of Chemistry by Experiment (1825) History of Chemistry (1830) A System of Chemistry of Inorganic Bodies (1831) Chemistry of Animal Bodies (1843) Outlines of Mineralogy and Geology (1836) Chemistry (article in 7th edition of Encyclopedia Britannia) (1842) From 1813 to 1822 he was Editor of the Annals of Philosophy. In culture In June 2011, Russian artist Alexander Taratynov installed a life-size statue of French architect Thomas de Thomon (1760–1813) in Saint Petersburg. The statue is part of The Architects, a bronze sculptural group depicting the great architects of Russian Empire as commissioned by Gazprom and installed in Alexander Park. In 2018 associate of Shchusev Museum of Architecture Kirill Posternak discovered a mistake. Taratynov admitted he used a picture he found on Wikipedia to base the statue on, and that it was actually an image of the Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson – he blamed Wikipedia for the error but also himself for not checking with a historian to verify it was accurate. Notes References Further reading External links 1773 births 1852 deaths 19th-century British chemists 19th-century British geologists People from Crieff Burials at the Glasgow Necropolis Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Linnean Society of London Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Scottish chemists Scottish inventors Scottish mineralogists People educated at the High School of Dundee Alumni of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish encyclopedists Scottish publishers (people) 19th-century Scottish scientists Regius Professors Scottish travel writers