Sir Henry Thompson was an English surgeon, astronomer, writer, socialite and painter. He was born in 1820 at Framlingham, Suffolk and died in 1904. A businessman, he went to London and was apprenticed to a doctor at Croydon. In 1844 he entered University College, London as a medical student. In 1850 he was made house surgeon at University College Hospital and in 1851 started as a medical practitioner in London. An FRCS in 1853, in 1866 he became professor of surgery at University College Hospital and Hunterian professor at the College of Surgeons in 1883. He specialised in surgery of the urinary organs, something he had studied in Paris. He was knighted in 1869 and made a baronet in 1899. As a socialite he was famous for his dinners for eight people, consisting of eight courses, served at eight o'clock which he called octaves. The 300th of which was attended by King George V. Research Henry Thompson
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