Thomas Thompson
The name Thomas Thompson is the first name on the monument.
The monument is in Pere Lachaise (Pt2) cemetery, Paris, Paris, France.
There are 76 other graves within this cemetery that are listed within the GPR database.
Thomas Thompson was buried in 1828. The actual date of death is not currently recorded on the GPR database but it may be on the grave monument photograph.
Thomas Thompson age is given as 74.
Thomas Thompson calculated year of birth is 1754.
Thomas Thompson is listed on the GPR grave numbered 329719.
Thomas Thompson is listed as the first name on monument on the grave monument.
Thomas Thompson has the record number 702729 within the GPR person name database table.
The record was added to the GPR on 18 August 2013
There is one image available for the monument listing Thomas Thompson (see grave detail page).
The follow note is stored against Thomas Thompson record:
Thomas Thompson was a businessman from Hull who began his career working for the father of William Wilberforce; the anti-slavery campaigner. Thompson married Philothea Perront Briggs; and they built a country retreat; Cottingham Castle in Yorkshire; He was an active lay Methodist lay preacher; and a supporter of Wilberforce and the Clapham sect. He was MP for Midhurst in Sussex from 1807-1818; but remained chairman of Wilberforce Smith's Bank and Wilberforce's merchant house in Hull. His son was Thomas Perronet Thompson; Governor of Sierre Leone. Thompson died in Paris on his first trip abroad; accompanying his grandchildren.