Abstract
William Robin Thompson was born on 29 June 1887 in London, Ontario, Canada. He was the only child of William Thompson, schoolmaster and journalist of Derwent, Ontario, and of Alice (Morgan) Thompson of London, Ontario. His mother died within a fortnight of his birth. Thompson was descended on his father’s side from a pioneer Canadian family which migrated from Ulster, Ireland, in 1817 when his great grandfather Arthur and his brother Richard sold their land interests. This family can be traced through maps and deeds to Thomas Thompson (deceased 1717) of Ardunsheen Townland. Arthur Thompson’s son became Sir William John Thompson and was one of the pioneers in the fight against tuberculosis in Ireland. W. R. Thompson’s father, after a period as headmaster of a school, became the first editor of the (London) daily,The Advertiser, and finally editor-in-chief of the agricultural weekly,The Farmer's Advocate. W. R. Thompson’s great uncle, Thomas O’Hara, was a Moravian missionary in Labrador in the late 1860s.
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