{"bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Dr. David Thomson was a scholar of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and later became the Master of that same college. As a historian his efforts were focused on the period 1815-1914 particularly on post-revolutionary France, and Britain. He was a noted contributor to the journal *French Studies*."}, "name": "David Thomson", "links": [{"url": "http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/content/XXIV/3/328-b.extract", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Obituary in the Journal 'French Studies'"}], "personal_name": "Thomson, David", "death_date": "1970", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2016-05-17T19:27:55.664585"}, "latest_revision": 4, "key": "/authors/OL125200A", "birth_date": "1912", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 4}