Ralph Wood Thompson
Sir Ralph Wood Thompson, KCB, PC (1 July 1830 – 1 December 1902) was a British civil servant.
Thompson was the son of Jonathan Thompson of Sherwood Hall, Nottinghamshire, receiver-general of Crown rents for the northern counties, by his wife Anne, daughter of Ralph Smyth, colonel in the Royal Artillery. A brother, Captain Henry Langhorne Thompson, gained fame for his part in the defence of Kars.
Thompson joined the Colonial Office as a clerk in 1853. He became Registrar in the War Office in 1854, Chief Clerk in War Office in 1871, Assistant Under-Secretary of State for War, 1877, and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War in 1878. He retired in 1895.
Thompson was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1877, promoted to a Knight Commander (KCB) in 1882, and was appointed to the Privy Council in Lord Rosebery's resignation honours list in 1895.
Thompson married in 1856 Agatha Vaughan Cornish, daughter of Rev. George Cornish, rector of Kenwyn, Cornwall. She died in 1861. The colonial administrator Sir Harry Langhorne Thompson was their son.
He died in London on 1 December 1902.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Obituary". The Times (36941). London. 3 December 1902. p. 6.
- 1830 births
- 1902 deaths
- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
- Civil servants in the Colonial Office
- Civil servants in the War Office
- Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for War