Thompson had little formal education and was largely self-taught. In early adulthood, he began a life of professional activism, starting with his role in founding a mutual improvement society at … 展开

He was involved in the setting up of the British India Society in 1839. He was also the President of the Bengal British India Society, which was … 展开

Thompson became ill and traveled back to his home country, where he died in 1878, and was buried in Beckett Street Cemetery, … 展开

• Works by George Thompson at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Thompson at the Internet Archive
• Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Thompson, George" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, … 展开

Initially Thompson had little knowledge of slavery, though he had gained a reputation as an able orator. He was hired by the society to try to get slavery immediately abolished on moral and … 展开

George Thompson was an active lecturer, and he willingly pointed out the role that America played in the perpetuation of slavery. He first traveled to the United States in 1834, where he attracted the attention of pro-slavery men, and barely escaped being captured … 展开

On 29 January 1831 in Islington, Thompson married Anne Erskine Lorraine Spry. Thompson had several children who survived to adulthood: Louisa Eliza Spry (m. Frederick Arthur … 展开