The Annual , Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and . 8 6 1916 Leeds. 144 annual monitor Alfred Samuel Tetley .. 48 4 9 1916 Scarborough. Died at Taunton. Headmasterof the Scarborough Municipal Thackray .. .. 48 31 5 1916 Leeds. Wife of Thomas A. Thistlethwaite ..65 16 9 1916 Tonganoxie, Kansas, Wife of Thompson ..78 16 9 1915 Urmston, Gertrude Thompson 71 17 2 1916 SoiUhport. Wife of James Edmund ThompsonNannie Thompson . 80 20 12 1915 Kendal. Widow of Christo
The Annual , Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and . 8 6 1916 Leeds. 144 annual monitor Alfred Samuel Tetley .. 48 4 9 1916 Scarborough. Died at Taunton. Headmasterof the Scarborough Municipal Thackray .. .. 48 31 5 1916 Leeds. Wife of Thomas A. Thistlethwaite ..65 16 9 1916 Tonganoxie, Kansas, Wife of Thompson ..78 16 9 1915 Urmston, Gertrude Thompson 71 17 2 1916 SoiUhport. Wife of James Edmund ThompsonNannie Thompson . 80 20 12 1915 Kendal. Widow of Christopher Thompson. SiLVANus Phillips Thompson 65 12 6 1916West Hampstead. A Minister and Elder. Silvanus Phillips Thompson was born at Yorkon June 19th, 1851, being the second son ofSilvanus Thompson, master at Bootham School,and Bridget, daughter of John Tatham, of Settle,Yorl^. His ancestors on both sides had beenmembers of the Society of Friends for manygenerations, and had suffered under the persecu-tions of the 17th and 18th centuries. On bothsides, too, he inherited a taste for and love SiLVANUs Phillips Thompson SILVANUS PHILLIPS THOMPSON 145 His paternal grandfather, Thomas Thompson,descended from a sturdy public spirited yeomaufamily of Westmoreland ; was a manufacturingchemist in Liverpool, and married FrancesPhillips, sister of the famous William Phillips,geologist, and Richard Phillips, physicist, the well-known friends of the still more famous Faraday. The youngest son of Thomas, SilvanusThompson, chose the teaching profession for hiscalling in life, and after his marriage to BridgetTatham they went to live at Union Terrace, York,where eight children were born to them. Bridget Thompson was a remarkaVjle woman,and she acquired from her father, who was awell-known botanist, a great interest in andknowledge of that science. Small and delicate inphysique, of a sweet and loving disposition, shehad an indomitable spirit. In the days whenFroebelian and Montessori
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