Walter ThomWalter Thom was a Scottish writer and journalist.LifeHe was born at Bervie, Kincardineshire, and later moved to Aberdeen, where he established himself as a bookseller. In 1813 he went to Dublin, as editor of the Dublin Journal, assisted by his son Alexander Thom. He died in there on 16 June 1824.WorksThom was the author of a History of Aberdeen and of a treatise on Pedestrianism. He also contributed to Brewster's Encyclopædia, to Sir [John Sinclair]'s Statistical Account of Scotland, and to William [Shaw Mason]'s Statistical Account of Ireland.