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	'''Alexander Thoms''' [[FRSE]] (1837–1925) was a 19th/20th century Scottish mineralogist. His collection of rocks and minerals form a core part of the collection within the [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery]] in [[Glasgow]].<ref name="gla">{{cite web\|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/rocksandminerals/\|title=University of Glasgow - The Hunterian - Collections - Collection Summaries - Rocks and Minerals\|website=gla.ac.uk\|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>		'''Alexander Thoms''' [[FRSE]] (1837–1925) was a 19th/20th century Scottish mineralogist. His collection of rocks and minerals form a core part of the collection within the [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery]] in [[Glasgow]].<ref name="gla">{{cite web\|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/rocksandminerals/\|title=University of Glasgow - The Hunterian - Collections - Collection Summaries - Rocks and Minerals\|website=gla.ac.uk\|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

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'''Alexander Thoms''' [[FRSE]] (1837–1925) was a 19th/20th century Scottish mineralogist. His collection of rocks and minerals form a core part of the collection within the [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery]] in [[Glasgow]].<ref name="gla">{{cite web|url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/rocksandminerals/|title=University of Glasgow - The Hunterian - Collections - Collection Summaries - Rocks and Minerals|website=gla.ac.uk|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

==Life==

He was born in [[Longforgan]] in [[Perthshire]] on 9 November 1837, the son of John Thoms of Clepington, and his wife, Barbara Wise.<ref name="heddle">{{cite web|url=http://heddle.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I3973&tree=tree001|website=heddle.com|title=Thoms, Alexander b. 9 Nov 1837 Longforgan, Perthshire, Scotland d. 26 Dec 1925 Playfair Terrace, St. Andrews, Fireshire, Scotland|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

Around 1854 he went to [[Bengal]] in [[India]] and spent around three decades there managing tea plantations. He returned permanently to Scotland in 1884 and settled in [[St Andrews]] where he already had family links. He was a church elder in St Leonard's Church and served as Kirk Treasurer from 1889 to 1921.<ref name="jisc">{{cite web|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/a4806428-cc55-3df1-add6-1aafd69cfdba|title=Alexander Thoms papers|website=Archives Hub|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

In 1905 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[Ben Peach]], [[John Horne]], [[Robert Kidston]] and [[James Currie (shipowner)|James Currie]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0-902-198-84-X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|access-date=2018-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074135/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He died on [[Boxing Day]], 26 December 1925, at his home on Playfair Terrace in [[St Andrews]].

==Publications==

*''The Mineralogy of Scotland''

==Family==

He married three times. Firstly in 1879 to Mary Watson Wemyss (born 1849), daughter of Dr Alexander Watson Wemyss of St Andrews. Mary died in March of the following year a few days after giving birth to their only child (who also died).<ref name="heddle"/>

He then (around 1885) married Jean Fowler Munro (born 1855) of [[Ratho]]. They had a son Alexander Thoms (born 1886).

In April 1898 he married Clementina Christian Sinclair Heddle (1860–1942), daughter of Prof [[Matthew Forster Heddle]] of [[St Andrews University]].<ref name="heddle2">{{cite web|url=http://heddle.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I3972&tree=tree001|website=heddle.com|title=Heddle, Clementina Christian Sinclair b. 22 Apr 1860 St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 21 Apr 1942 St. Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref><ref name="edinburghgeolsoc">{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/edingeologist/z_39_02.html|website=edinburghgeolsoc.org|title=Edinburgh Geological Society|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref> Clementina emigrated to [[California]] in 1939.<ref name="fold3">{{cite web|url=https://www.fold3.com/document/7453755/|title=Clementina Sinclair Heddle Smith - Declaration of Intention (1939) |website=Fold3.com|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

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