November 25th, 1875 - April 15th, 1912

He is a Sagittarius.

Thomson Beattie was born late in his mother's life in Fergus, Ontario, a small but thriving rural community 100 km west of Toronto. He was the last of 11 children in a solid, conservative Presbyterian family, and was 24 years younger than his oldest brother William. His father was a private banker, and in 1871 was named the Clerk of Wellington County, a position held until his death in 1897. After their father died, Thomson and his brother, Charles, took their share of the estate and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba. There Thomson went into partnership with Richard Waugh, and together they opened the Haslam Land Co. Within 5 their enterprise was so successful, Thomson was able to buy a substantial house that he shared with a medical doctor in a upscale neighborhood, at River Ave. When Waugh was elected Mayor of Winnipeg in 1911, Thomson was left to run their company on his own. His best friend and closest companion was Thomas McCaffry, the superintendent of the Union Bank in Vancouver. The Winnipeg Free Press described the men as "almost inseparable". 

Aboard Titanic/April 14th-15th, 1912:
In January of 1912, Thomson, Thomas, and another friend Hugo Ross sailed from New York to Trieste on the Franconia for a winter vacation. By March, Hugo had become ill and Thomson and Thomas, too were exhausted from their travels. They decided to sail home on Titanic. "We are changing ships and coming home in a new, unsinkable boat"', Thomson wrote to his mother 3 days before they sailed.

Thomson paid £75, 4s, 10d for first class cabin C-6 which he shared with Thomas. Thomson mist have been on the roof near the officer's quarters, near the last available lifeboat Collapsable A when the ship went down. He scrambled aboard, made it into the boat, but died of exposure. When Harold Lowe emptied the boat, there were 3 bodies, including Thomson's left behind. A month after the sinking, the Oceanic came across the boat bobbing in the open sea at 47 degrees, 10 mins N, 30 degrees, 56 mins W, some 300 km southwest of where Titanic had gone down. Shane Leslie, who was aboard the Oceanic recalled:

"The sea was calm at noon where the watch called out that something could be seen floating ahead. The ship slowed down and it was apparent that the object was an open ship's lifeboat floating in mid Atlantic. What was horrifying is that it contained 3 restate figures. Orders from the bridge dispatched a lifeboat with an officer and a medical officer. What followed was ghastly. 2 sailors could be seen, their hair bleached from exposure to the sun and salt, and a third figure, wearing evening dress, flat on the benches. All 3 were dead and the bodies had been tossing the Atlantic swell under the open sky since it had seen the greatest of ocean liners sink. The 3 bodies were sewn into canvas bags with a steel bar at the end of each. Then one more after the other the bodies were draped in the Union Jack, the burial service was read, and they splashed the sea."

In a example of what might be called comic serendipity, Thomson's body was buried at sea on his mother's birthday, almost at the same spot in the Atlantic where she had been born 82 years ago on a ship headed for Canada. He is remembered on a stone in the family plot in Fergus, Ontario.

Sources:
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Rest In Peace Thomson Beattie.