High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas M`Crie (November 1772 – August 5, 1835) was a Scottish historian, writer, and preacher born in the town of Duns in November 1772. He was the eldest of a family of four sons and three daughters. His father was a manufacturer and merchant of Dunse, and lived to witness the literary celebrity of his son, as his death did not occur until 1828.