William Francis Thompson (1810–1842) was a British India civil servant, magistrate and philologist who was born in London, England, and died in Ghazipur, India.
Biography edit
Thompson attended the Haileybury and Imperial Service College before joining the Bengal Civil Service. He was first appointed as an assistant magistrate in Bareilly, and later served in Bundelkhand, Delhi and Hissar. Taking medical leave in Australia in 1835, he subsequently returned to India where he died in 1842.[1]
Thompson is known for his translation of the Akhlāq-i Jalālī, published in 1839 under the title Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People.[2] He was also a poet and published India: A Poem, in Three Cantos, a work critical of British rule in India.[3]
References edit
- ^ University of Toronto, Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, online at: https://jacksonbibliography.library.utoronto.ca/author/details/thompson-william-francis/21590.
- ^ Asaad Fakir Jany Muhammad and W. F. Thompson, Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People Exhibited in Its Professed Connexion with the European so As to Bender Either an Introduction to the Other; Being a Translation of the Akhlak-i-Jalaly the Most Esteemed Ethical Work of Middle Asia from the Persian Fakir Jany Muhammad Asaad: With References and Notes by W. F. Thompson Esq. of the Bengal Civil Service (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by W.H. Allen and Co. Leadenhall Street, 1839).
- ^ A young civilian of Bengal [i.e. William Francis Thompson], India: A Poem, in Three Cantos (London: John R. Priestley, 1834).