biography
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Thomson, James
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pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis or BV
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1834–82)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, WC Scotland, UK. Brought up in an orphanage, he trained as an army schoolmaster at the Royal Military Academy, Chelsea, but was dismissed from army service for alcoholism in 1862. Through his friend Charles Bradlaugh he contributed (1862–75) to the National Reformer, in which appeared many of his sombre, sonorous poems, including ‘The City of Dreadful Night’ (1874), his greatest work. |
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