Thomas Simpson
1808–40
Arctic explorer. Second in command, under Peter Warren Dease, on the Hudson’s Bay Company’s expedition to the north-western coast of North America, 1836–9. Killed by gunshot wound.
Sources
DNB
MDCB.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
MDCB: The Macmillan dictionary of Canadian biography. Edited by W. Stewart Wallace. 4th edition. Revised by W. A. McKay. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. 1978.
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