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 THOMPSON 717 queen. In the summer of 1875 she exhibited another military picture, and at the close of the same year, on her return from Italy, a " Vintage Sketch in Tuscany." THOMPSON, Sir Henry, an English surgeon, born at Framlingham, Suffolk, Aug. 6, 1820. He was educated at University college, Lon- don, became assistant surgeon of the college hospital in 1853, surgeon in 1863, and professor of clinical surgery in 1866, and was knighted in 1867. He has published " The Pathology and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra" (London, 1853 ; 3d ed., 1869) ; " The Enlarged Prostate, its Pathology and Treatment" (1857; 2d ed., including the Jacksonian prize essay of the royal college of surgeons for 1860, 1861 ; 3d ed., 1868) ; "Practical Lithotomy and Lith- otrity" (1863; 2d ed., 1871); and "Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Urinary Organs " (1868 ; 2d ed., 1870). THOMPSON, Joseph Parrish, an American clergy- man, born in Philadelphia, Aug. 7, 1819. He graduated at Yale college in 1838, studied the- ology at Andover and New Haven, and was ordained pastor of the Chapel street Congre- gational church, New Haven, in November, 1840. From 1845 to 1872 he was minister of the Broadway Tabernacle church in New York. While at New Haven he was one of the originators of the "New Englander," a Congregational quarterly review, and he was also one of the founders of the "Indepen- dent" newspaper. In 1852 he originated the plan of the Albany Congregationalist conven- tion. He was also a manager of the American Congregational union, and of the American home missionary society. In 1852 he visited Palestine, Mt. Sinai, Egypt, and other oriental countries ; and he has since devoted much time to oriental studies, especially Egyptology, the results of which have appeared in his contri- butions to the "North American Review," the "Bibliotheca Sacra," the "Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Soci- ety," Smith's "Dictionary of Biblical Geog- raphy and Antiquities," and the revised edi- tion of Kitto's " Cyclopaedia of Biblical Liter- ature." Harvard university conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1856. He now (1876) resides in Berlin. Dr. Thompson has published " Memoir of Timothy Dwight " (New Haven, 1844); " Lectures to Young Men " (New York, 1846); "Hints to Employers" (1847); " Memoir of David Hale " (1850) ; " Foster on Missions, with a Preliminary Essay " (1850) ; " Stray Meditations " (1852 ; revised ed. en- titled " The Believer's Refuge," 1857) ; " The Invaluable Possession" (1856); "Egypt, Past and Present" (Boston, 1856); "The Early Witnesses" (1857); "Memoir of Rev. David T. Stoddard" (New York, 1858) ; "The Chris- tian Graces" (1859); "The College as a Re- ligious Institution" (1859); "Love and Pen- alty " (1860) ; " Bryant Gray " (1863) ; " Chris- tianity and Emancipation " (1863) ; " The Holy Comforter " (1866) ; " Man in Genesis and Geology" (1869); "Theology of Christ, from His Own Words" (1870); "Home Worship" (1871) ;" Church and State in the United States " (1874); and "Life of Christ" (1875). THOMPSON, Lamit, an American sculptor, born in Queen's county, Ireland, in 1833. He came to the United States at an early age with his mother, a widow, who settled in Albany, N. Y. While studying in the medical college he also attended a drawing school, and was en- couraged in his taste for art by William Hart and E. D. Palmer. When the latter opened a studio for sculpture in Albany, Thompson be- came his pupil, and remained with him nine years, making himself known by his ideal head of " Little Nell," which he twice copied to fill orders,, and by his busts and medallion portraits. In 1858 he settled in New York, and was elected an associate of the national academy of design. In 1859 his bust of the "Trapper" secured his election as an academician, and he soon after became a member of the council ; and he also served on the committee for the erection of the new building of the academy. He now (1876) resides in Florence, Italy. Among Mr. Thomp- son's principal works are a statue of Gen. John Sedgwick, erected at West Point; a colossal statue of Napoleon, now owned by Mr. Pinchot of Milford, Pa. ; a statue of Gen. Winfield Scott, erected at the soldiers' home near Washington ; a soldiers' monument at Pittsfield, Mass. ; a statue of the Rev. Abraham Pierson, first pres- ident of Yale college, erected in the college grounds ; and many busts and bass-reliefs. THOMPSON, Thomas Perronet, an English po- litical reformer, born in Hull, March 15, 1783, died Sept. 6, 1869. In 1803 he entered the navy as midshipman, and in 1806 went into the army as second lieutenant. In 1808 he was made governor of Sierra Leone. One of his first acts was to issue a proclamation for the suppression of the slave trade in the col- ony ; and the opposition raised against him by the slave traders caused his recall. He ar- rived in England in 1810, returned to the army, and served in the peninsular campaign of 1813, in France in 1814, and afterward in the Pindaree campaign in India. In 1819, having learned Arabic, he accompanied Sir William Keir Grant in the expedition up the Persian gulf, and assisted in the negotiation of the treaty with the Arab tribes, by which the slave trade was declared piracy. In 1854 he was made major general. In 1814 he pub- lished a work entitled " On a Constitution." He was one of the contributors to the "West- minster Review " on its establishment in 1824, and five years afterward became joint pro- prietor, writing for it constantly till 1836. His "Corn Law Catechism" (1827) was the most effective attack upon the protectionist system. He was several times elected to par- liament. A selection from his miscellaneous writings was published (6 vols., 1842). THOMPSON, Waddy, an American lawyer, born at Pickensville, S. C., Sept. 8, 1798, died in