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SIR WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON, who was a passenger on the R.M.S. Leinster when she was torpedoed in the Irish Channel on the morning of October 10, was a son of the late William Thompson, of Grariard, Co. Longford. He was educated at the Dundalk Institution and at Queen's College, Belfast, and was a graduate in medicine of the Royal University of Ireland. After the outbreak of war, when the question of food supply became of paramount importance, he was able to give valuable help to the Royal Society's Committee on Food, of which he was a member. He became scientific adviser to the Ministry of Food shortly o after its formation under Lord Devonport, and was made a Knight of the Order of the British Empire in January last in recognition of his services.
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Sir W. H. Thompson, K.B.E . Nature 102, 170 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102170a0
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