Henry Francis Herbert Thompson

Sir Henry Francis Herbert Thompson, 2nd Baronet (2 April 1859 – 26 May 1944) was a British Egyptologist.Henry Thompson was born in London on 2 April 1859, the son of Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet and Kate Fanny Loder, the English composer and pianist.[1] After careers in medicine and law (he was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1878 and called to the bar in 1882),[1] he became interested in Egyptology.He was a lecturer and fellow at University College London, and chairman of the Golders Green Crematorium.There is a chair established in his name at Cambridge University; the Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology.
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