Education
Born in Clydebank, Scotland, he attended George Watson"s College and graduated from Edinburgh University with first-class honours in History.
Born in Clydebank, Scotland, he attended George Watson"s College and graduated from Edinburgh University with first-class honours in History.
He was also Chief Justice of Fiji. He was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1929. He was a resident magistrate in Northern Rhodesia, appointed Puisne Judge, Fiji and Western Pacific in 1945, and Puisne Judge in Malaya in 1947.
He was Chief Justice of Fiji (and ex officio Chief Judicial Commissioner for the Western Pacific) 1949-1953, and Chief Justice of Tonga.
He was called to the Scottish Bar in 1955. From 1953 Thomson was back in Malaysia.
He was a judge in the High Court in Ipoh, Perak, from 1953-1957. In 1957 he was appointed as Chief Justice of Malaya, receiving a knighthood in 1959.
After the Federation of Malaya was re-constituted as Malaysia in September 1963, Thomson served as its first Lord President of the Federal Court until May 1966.
He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966.