Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

He obtained his medical degree in 1851 with the highest honours in anatomy and surgery[1] and set up a practice at 35 Wimpole Street in London, where he lived and worked until his death in 1904.[2] In 1863, when King Leopold I of Belgium was suffering from kidney stones, Thompson was called to Brussels to consult in the case, and after some difficulties was allowed to perform the operation of lithotripsy.He denounced the prevailing methods of death certification in Great Britain; and in 1892 a select committee was appointed to inquire into the matter; its report, published the following year, was generally in line with his thinking.Of his two daughters, the elder Kate Mary Margaret Thompson (1856–1942) was the author of a valuable Handbook to the Public Picture Galleries of Europe, first published in 1877.They had two sons, the youngest was the World War I poet Alec de Candole[10] Thompson believed in an impersonal God.[1] Besides devising operative improvements, he wrote books and papers dealing with them, including:[4] He produced two successful novels, Charley Kingston's Aunt (1885) and All But (1886).
Thompson in a portrait painted by John Everett Millais
Thompson's portrait of Carlo Pellegrini
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