DEATH OF SIR HENRY THOMPSON.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 7

DEATH OF SIR HENRY THOMPSON.

(Received 9.22 a.m.) LONDON, April 19. Sir Henry Thompson, the well-known surgeon and artist, has died at the age of eighty-two. [Sir Henry Thompson, Bart,, F.R.C.S., M.8., was born in 1820, and was educated privately and at University College, London, where in 1863 he became surgeon, in 1866 professor of clinical surgery, and in 1874 consulting surgeon. He twice gained the Jacksonian prize of the College of Surgeons, and after a famous operation upon the King of the Belgians was appointed His Majesty's Surgeon Extraordinary. Sir Henry Thompson was the recipient of honours from nearly all the learned bodies of Europe, and of the orders of many courts. He was a strong advocate of cremation, and was president of the Cremation Society of England from its inauguration in 1874. As an artist he studied under Alma Tadema, and was a frequent exhibitor'both in the iioyal Academy and in tne Paris Salon. Sir Henry Thompson was instrumental hi furthering several important legislative reforms, including the present system of death certification.]