Thomas Thompson
Thomas Thompson (President of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society) (1791 – 1874) was an English lawyer, thinker and writer, and was vice-president and president of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society.
Biography
Thomas Thompson, English lawyer, was vice-president and president of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, of Kingston Upon Hull, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.[1] The Hull Literary and Philosophical Society was founded in 1822 as a "self-help organisation". It held public lectures on science, politics and other key issues of the period and was responsible for setting up a museum and art gallery, which later formed the basis of the city council's collection.[2].
Was the younger brother of Benjamin Thompson, son of Benjamin Blaydes Thompson, and was a descendant through the family of Blaydes from the Rev. Andrew Marvel, Master of the Charterhouse in the reign of Charles I. , and father of Andrew Marvel, M.P. , of Hull. He was the grandson of the Rev. Isaac Thompson, formerly vicar of St. Mary's Church . Mr. Thompson was president of the Literary and Philosophical Society 1840-1843 , and of its sister institution, the Hull Subscription Library, in the years 1829-30 and 1838-43. Indeed , in the annals of this society, appended to the new catalogue published in 1876 , his name, coupled with that of Mr. Charles Frost, F.S.A. , is " mentioned with especial honour."[1]
He was also Town Clerk from 1837 to Aug. 22nd , 1858, when he resigned through ill- health . There is a picture of him in the Property Committee Room at the Town Hall , which bears the following inscription :-" This portrait of Thomas Thompson, Esq. , for upwards of twenty-one years Town Clerk of Hull, was painted by subscription, and presented by the Town Council as a mark of esteem and respect for him, and a testimonial of high appreciation of his long and valuable services to the Corporation and the Town.— Hull, Oct. 1860. G. P. Green, Pinxt." [1]
Concerning this, Mr. Sheahan, in his " History of Hull," on page 240, says :- " The presentation took place in the Council Chamber, on the 17th of October, 1860 (at a luncheon at which Mr. Alderman Moss presided) , and the picture was, at the same time , handed over to the town, to be hung in one of the apartments of the Mansion House, where Mr. Thompson, for so long, had usefully laboured. The ex- Town Clerk, who, by the way, is remarkable for his wit and learning, is the son of the late Benjamin Blaydes Thompson , Esq. , of East Dale, near Hull. ”[1]
In 1869 , Mr. Thompson published , for " private circulation among friends and neighbours, " his "Researches into the History of Welton and its neighbourhood"[3]
He died at his house at Spring Hill , Welton , on Sunday, April 19th, 1874, at the age of 83, and he was buried at the parish church, Welton , on the Friday after, at mid -day, when the shops in Welton were closed, and the respect in which he was held was shown by the large attendance at his funeral. Among those who were present were the older members of the Council and the legal profession, W. H. H. Broadley, Esq. , M.P. , Smyth Egginton, Esq. , of Kirkella, Colonel Pease, of Hessle, E. S. Wilson, Esq. , of Welton , the mayor of Hull (J. L. Seaton , Esq.) , and others.[1]
On the Sunday following the Rev. Canon Paget, Vicar of Welton, preached his funeral sermon from the text, " The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin " ( 1 John i . 7) . In this sermon it is stated that Mr.Thompson retained his faculties in full vigour till his death, at which time he was said to be the oldest practising attorney in Hull, having been admitted attorney and solicitor so far back as 1819.[1]
Thomas Thompson, put forth an hypothesis in The Magazine of Natural History (January 1835)[4], in which he argued that the biblical leviathan should be identified as the recently unearthed predatory dinosaur Megalosaurus[5].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Corlass, Reginald Walter; Andrews, William; Corlass, Charles Frederick (1879). Sketches of Hull Authors. Hull: H. Bolton. Search this book on
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- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgjn172z280o
- ↑ Thompson, T. (1870). Researches into the history of Welton and its neighbourhood: with a few remarks, chiefly of an antiquarian nature, about some adjacent places in Yorkshire and about the Yorkshire language ... Kingston-upon-Hull: Leng & Co..https://archive.org/details/researchesintoh00thomgoog/page/n6/mode/2up?q=leviathan
- ↑ Loudon, J. C., Denson, John, & Charlesworth, Edward. (1835). Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology (Vol. 8). printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2335139
- ↑ Loudon, J. C., Denson, John, & Charlesworth, Edward. (1836). Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology and meteorology (Vol. 9, p. 48). printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2293034
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