George William Thomson Omond

G. W. T. Omond M.A., FRHistS, (1846-1929) was an advocate and a prolific writer of history books. He was born at Craigentor, Perthshire on 13th September 1846. His father was the Rev. John Reid Omond, Minister of the Free Church of Scotland at the parish of Monzie, Perthshire, and his mother Margaret Jane Thomson. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh where he graduated in 1868 with first class honours in classics and second class in philosophy. He married Margaret Isabella Alice Wright on 23rd July 1878 at Edinburgh, and they had one son and three daughters. He died on 18th June 1929.

Career

• 1871 - Called to the Scottish Bar as an advocate
• 1885 – Appointed Advocate-Depute
• 1886 – Contested West Perthshire constituency in the general election of 1886.

Publications

• The Merchant Shipping Acts 1854–1876;
• The Lord Advocates of Scotland 1488–1832;
• The Arniston Memoirs. Three centuries of a Scottish house, 1571-1838. Edited from the family papers by G. W. T. Omond, Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1887.)
• The Story of Maurice Lestrange;
• The Barton House Conspiracy: a tale of 1886, Edinburgh : E. & S. Livingstone, [1896.]
• Fletcher of Saltoun, Edinburgh: Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, 1897, ("Famous Scots Series")
  
• The Early History of the Scottish Union Question;
• The Boers in Europe: A Sidelight on History;
• Bruges and West Flanders, 1906;
• Brabant and East Flanders, 1907;
• Liége and the Ardennes, 1908;
• The Lord Advocates of Scotland (second series, 1834–1880), 1914;
• The Law of the Sea, 1916;
• Belgium, etc. (pp. v. 87. 1915.
• Belgium and Luxembourg, 1923; etc
• Belgium, 1830-1839. (1923.) In : Ward (Sir Adolphus W.) and Gooch (G. P.) The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, etc. vol. 2. 1922, etc.

Sources

• Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U214964