Case file
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Mr Robert William Thom
Mr Robert William Thom
Applications
6 (1 successful)
Date period
9 Mar 1853-29 Jan 1889
Awards
- 9 Mar 1853 (rejected)
- 2 Apr 1866 (£20)
- 3 Feb 1868 (rejected)
- 5 Jan 1869 (rejected)
- 24 Oct 1881 (rejected)
- 29 Jan 1889 (rejected)
Other author name(s)
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Author's career
- Clerk to a coal merchant
- publisher of the Railway Guide and Advertiser
Author's works published
Poetry
Also named in file
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Timeline
1853
Application Form, Robert William Thom – endorsed by Clark Rampling, S Bailiff, Edward Willan Junior and David Caldwell
9 Mar 1853
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Robert William Thom to Octavian Blewitt
14 Mar 1853
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S Bailiff to Octavian Blewitt
11 Apr 1853
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Edward Willan Junior to Octavian Blewitt
13 Apr 1853
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Clark Rampling to Octavian Blewitt
15 Apr 1853
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1866
Application Form, Robert William Thom
2 Apr 1866
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
2 Apr 1866
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Charles Edward Goate to the Committee of the Literary Fund
2 Apr 1866
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W H Marston to the Committee of the Literary Fund
2 Apr 1866
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B S Hickling to the Committee of the Literary Fund
2 Apr 1866
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John Goode to the Committee of the Literary Fund, on paper headed with an advertisement for The Coventry Times
2 Apr 1866
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
14 Apr 1866
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Robert William Thom to Octavian Blewitt
14 Apr 1866
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1868
Application Form, Robert William Thom
3 Feb 1868
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
3 Feb 1868
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P S Smith to the Committee of the Literary Fund
3 Feb 1868
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Samuel Mills to the Committee of the Literary Fund, on paper headed with an advertisement for the Dudley Herald
3 Feb 1868
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1869
Application Form, Robert William Thom
5 Jan 1869
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
5 Jan 1869
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John G Browne to the Committee of the Literary Fund
4 Jan 1869
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Advertisement for Dudley Poems, by Robert William Thom
1869
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1881
Application Form, Robert William Thom
24 Oct 1881
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
24 Oct 1881
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John C Steele to the Committee of the Literary Fund
24 Oct 1881
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Testimonial for Robert William Thom, signed George Outram & Co
27 Aug 1881
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1889
Application Form, Robert William Thom
29 Jan 1889
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Robert William Thom to the Committee of the Literary Fund
29 Jan 1889
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George Sutherland to the Committee of the Literary Fund
28 Jan 1889
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J Stuart Nairne to the Committee of the Literary Fund
28 Jan 1889
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1880
Press cuttings – an article entitled ‘Glasgow Men of Mark: Robert William Thom’ from the Glasgow Gazette, a birthday poem to Thom by Jacob Steinhauer (28 Dec 1888) and a printed sheet of opinions of his verse from newspaper reviewers and William Wordsworth
1880s-1888
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