Thoms, William John
(male)
11/16/1803 - 08/15/1885
English
Antiquary, journalist, and editor; clerk at Chelsea Hospital; published Early Prose Romances (1827-8); Lays and Legends of France, Spain, Tartary, and Ireland (1832); fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, secretary of the Camden Society; wrote for The Athenaeum. See Boase III: 943-4, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)