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THOMS, BERNARD NATHANIEL, youngest son of William John Thoms FSA, Assistant Librarian, House of Lords, founder Notes and Queries, and Laura, youngest dau. of John Bernard Sale, Organist of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and Gentleman of the Chapel Royal; b. 10 Dec 1843; adm. 27 Sep 1855; rowed v. Eton 3 Aug 1860, 2 Aug 1861, 1 Aug 1862; left Aug 1862; Assistant Surveyor-Gen., Post Office (in 1881); Postmaster at Nottingham; Hon. Secretary, Elizabethan Club 1864-7; [unm. in 1881]; d. 16 Jul 1908.

THOMPSON, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 8) Nov 1751.

THOMPSON, WILLIAM MAXWELL, brother of Harry Arthur Hale Thompson (qv); b. 18 Nov 1869; adm. 26 Jan 1882 (H); RMA Woolwich 1888; 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers 3 Mar 1889; Lieut., 3 Mar 1892; Capt., 3 Mar 1900; Maj., 14 Nov 1908; Lieut. -Col., 31 Dec 1916; retd. 1921; served on Chile-Argentina Boundary Commission 1902-3, at Gibraltar 1914, Dardanelles 1915 and at home; DSO 18 Dec 1917; mentioned in despatches; m. 18 Jul 1900 Frances Helen, dau. of Rev. Charles Bull, Leamington, Warwicks.; d. at sea 19 Dec 1934.

THOMPSON, THOMAS, only son of Richard Thompson, Greenwich, Kent, and Elizabeth --- (IGI); bapt. Greenwich, Kent 7 Feb 1778 (IGI); in school list 1795, sixth form list 1796; University Coll. Oxford, matr. 18 Mar 1796, aged 18; BA 1799; MA 1802; adm. Inner Temple 12 Nov 1800, called to bar 25 Nov 1803; Oxford Circuit; d. 16 Nov 1839.

Thompson, Robert Massina, son of Robert A. Thompson, of Westminster; b. March 30, 1893; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left July 1907.

THOMPSON, MICHAEL, son of Benjamin Thompson, Middle Temple, London; b. 30 Jan 1664/5; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1673-7; adm.; KS 1679; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1684, matr. 16 Dec 1684, Westminster Student from 15 Dec 1684, Tutor 1696-9, Junior Censor 1694-5, Senior Censor 1696-7, Catechist 1699; BA 1688; MA 1691; d. 11 Sep 1700. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Thompson, Michael Stephen, youngest son of Henry Lewis Thompson (q.v.); b. Oct. 11, 1881; adm. Sept. 24, 1896 (R); left July 1899; Central Technical Coll. South Kensington 1900-2; asst. engineer, Great Central Railway, 1902-8, Sudan Govt. Railways 1909-12; asst. director of Egyptian Public Works 1912-5; Assoc. M.Inst.C.E. Feb. 4, 1908; chief engineer, Palestine Railways, 1920-3; deputy chief engineer, Anglo-Spanish Construction Co., since 1924; temp. Capt. R.E. Sept. 18, 1917; served on the construction of military railways, Suez Canal, Sinai Desert, and Palestine 1915-20; demob. as Major; mentioned in despatches L.G. June 3, 1919; m. Dec. 11, 1912, Cecilia Margaret, daughter of James Henry Sprott, of Shrewsbury; M.I.C.E. 1928; sometime general manager, Santander-Mediter­ranean Railway, Spain; d. Feb. 23, 1955.

Thompson, Merrick Walter, son of Edwin Walter Thompson, stockbroker, of Blackheath, and Ethel Julia, d. of John Walter Pym Brown; b. 15 Apr. 1921; adm. Jan. 1935 (R); left July 1939; RA 1941-5 (Capt.); a stock jobber's clerk; m. 9 July 1949 Joy Dorothea, d. of Bernard Stanley Farnfield, HM Bickley Hall Sch., Kent; d. May 1988.

Thompson, Maurice Alfred, son of the Rev. George Alfred Thompson, Head Master of the Grammar School, Horsham, Sussex; b. June 6, 1896; adm. as K.S. Sept. 22, 1910; left (with a Triplett exhibition) Dec. 1914; Clare Coll. Camb. (adm. pensr. 1915); matric. 1915; Bell Scholar 1915; 1st class Math. Tripos, pt. i, 1919; B.A. 1921; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 3rd Batt. Royal Sussex Regt. Jan. 13, 1915; Lieut. R.G.A.; wounded at High Wood Aug. 20, 1916, and at Busigny Oct. 26, 1918; 2nd Lieut. R.A. July 15, 1940; transferred to R.A.C. Nov. 21, 1941; d. 1961.

THOMPSON, LUKE, brother of Leonard Thompson (qv); bapt. 7 Oct 1679; adm.; KS 1695; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1698, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1698, aged 18, scholar 28 Apr 1699, matr. 1698; BA 1701/2; adm. Inner Temple 17 Nov 1701; migr. to Grayís Inn, adm. 21 Jun 1721, called to bar 3 Jul 1728; m. 19 Aug 1731 Grace, dau. of Thomas Bawtry, Foston, Yorks.; d. 12 Jun 1743.