Sir Thomas Dick, Baronet, a popular miscellaneous writer, the only son of Sir Andrew Lauder, was born at Edinburgh in 1784, and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1830. His contributions to Tait's and Blackwood's Magazines first brought him into notice. Lochandhu and the Wolf of Badenoch were written when he was very young. He is the author of a paper on "The Parallel Roads of Glenroy," printed in vol. ix. of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was a member. He also published several sketches of Scottish scenery, under the titles of Highland Rambles, Legendary Tales of the Highlands, Tour round the Coasts of Scotland, and a Memorial of the Royal Progress in Scotland in 1842. He was for several years an active and useful secretary of the Board of Scottish Fisheries and of Arts and Manufactures. Sir Thomas died in 1848, at the Grange, near Edinburgh, and was succeeded in his title by his son.

a royal and parliamentary burgh of Scotland, county of Berwick, near the Leader, a tributary of the Tweed, 24 miles S.E. from Edinburgh. The burgh possesses a common of 1700 acres, belonging exclusively to a few privileged burgesses. In the neighbourhood is the mansion of Thirlstane, the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale; and about half a mile from the town stood the old bridge over the Leader, where the favourites of James III were hanged. Lauder unites with Haddington, Jedburgh, Dunbar, and North Berwick in returning one M.P. Pop. (1851) 1105.