Gordon writing to Peter Dixon in 2017:  
Before retiring to Skye in 2009 I had danced in Suffolk and surrounding areas for about 20 years. <<ddd:Gillian's Strathspey#11299>> was devised for Gillian Barella who taught a class in Nacton, Suffolk.  
<<ddd:Ask Miriam#14497>> and <<ddd:Return to Shieldaig#14496>> were devised in memory of Miriam Lochner, who you probably knew as she danced a lot in Cambridge. (Return to Shieldaig reflects her elegance in dance; Ask Miriam reflects her fun in dance).  
<<ddd:An T-Uibhisteach Tapaidh#17881>> was written for the 60th birthday of Calean Maclean, 'an agile man from Uist', who dances at our class in Skeabost on Skye. A local musician, Blair Douglas, wrote four new tunes for Calean's dance and recorded them.

Lesley Thomson sent the following in March 2023 (<<https://my.strathspey.org/dd/issue/3077/|issue 3077>>):  
My husband Gordon Thomson died unexpectedly of sepsis in Inverness ICU on October 18th 2022, aged 74.
At the funeral tea at a hotel in Inverness dancers from the Inverness RSCDS branch danced another of his
dances, <<ddd:Gillian's Strathspey#11299>>, named after a dance teacher and friend of ours.  
Gordon was a qualified Scottish Country Dancing teacher who started a class at Felixstowe in Suffolk before we retired to the Isle of Skye in 2009 where we danced with the Skye branch.
Being a mathematician he enjoyed composing complicated dances - a five couple dance called <<ddd:Lesley's Medley#12015>> became known as Lesley’s Mudlley because it was so complicated.  
He was very proud that his dances are now danced worldwide and that <<ddd:Return to Shieldaig#14496>> will be danced at the Inverness Highland Ball this month. 