James Thomson was a 19th century poet. He was born in 1834.
Thomson was likely turned into one of the walking dead by a House Military ghost cluster during the War in Heaven. In 1874 he wrote a poem about his experience as one of "the saddest and the weariest men on earth".
Due to the ghost cluster, The Book of the War noted that Thomson's descendants, including James Thomson III, were "only occasionally found to have existed". (PROSE: The Book of the War)