Thomas Allan Croal | |
Birth Date: | 9 December 1832 |
Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Death Place: | Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland |
Occupation: | Historian, author |
Thomas Allan Croal (9 December 1832 – 4 April 1907) was a British historian and author. He wrote, or contributed to, several publications during the late 19th- and early 20th centuries, including A Book About Travelling, Past and Present (1877), Scottish Loch Scenery (1882) and Palaces and Prisons of Mary, Queen of Scots (with Michael Myers Shoemaker, 1903).
In 1901, while working as a correspondent for The Railway News in London, he contributed a section on Scotland's transport system to Francis Hindes Groome's book .
Croal was born in Craig's Close, 265 High Street, Edinburgh, in 1832.[1]
In 1861, he was writing the weekly "Notes from Edinburgh" column in the Inverness Courier. He also worked with his brother, who was a journalist with the Edinburgh Courant.
Up until December 1897, he worked at the General Post Office, before beginning a role as examiner in its accounting department.
Croal died at his home in James Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, on 4 April 1907, aged 74.
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