Sir Henry Francis Herbert Thompson, 2nd Baronet (2 April 1859 – 26 May 1944) was a British

Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native religiou ...

. Henry Thompson was born in

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on 2 April 1859, the son of

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet, (6 August 1820 – 18 April 1904) was a British surgeon and polymath. His interest was particularly in the surgery of the genito-urinary tract. Medical career Thompson was born at Framlingham, Suffolk. His ...

and Kate Fanny Loder, the English composer and pianist. He was educated at Marlborough College and

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. After careers in medicine and law (he was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1878 and called to the bar in 1882), he became interested in Egyptology. He was a lecturer and fellow at

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, and chairman of the

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. There is a chair established in his name at

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; the Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology. He died on 26 May 1944 in Bath.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Henry Francis 1859 births 1944 deaths British Egyptologists Thompson, Henry, 2nd Baronet Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge People educated at Marlborough College Academics of University College London Members of the Inner Temple

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