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in 1845 came to Plymouth and commenced practice. June 1
1847 appointed to H.M.S. '-Odin," Captain the Honble. F.
Pelham. 20 Oct. 1849 he brought out his signal night lights
for ships, printed his first book at Malta. 18.51 printed his
second book on night signal lights. 1852 sent a proposition
and plan after a meeting with Lieut. Lambert of H.M.S.
"Odin" to Sir Edward Parry for united action in H.M.
service for prayer. Out of this originated the Royal Naval
Scripture Readers' Society, which now employs fourteen
readers, and has an income of £2,000 a-year. This year
he published his third book on night signals under the
authority of and paid for by the Admiralty. Was ordered
to sea by the Admiralty and worked them with success for
five months. 1853 invented a slush lamp for decks, ordered
by the Admiralty to test the plans on board the flagship
" Royal Adelaide" at Plymouth. Offered to light all ships
with his slush lamps. All ships in H.M. service are now
lighted on his plans. Printed and published " Night signals
for merchant ships." Appointed to the " Russell" coast-
guard ship at Falmouth in 1854, then to the "Royal
William," taking in her 1,100 French troops to the Baltic
during the Russian war. Was present at the attack on
Bomarsund. Brought home 700 Russian prisoners, of these
200 fell ill with cholera, twenty five died ; none of the crew
however suffered. He received the war medal. In 1856 he
once more commenced to practice at Plymouth, being put on
half-pay, and so continued for four years. During 1860 he
was appointed to the "Royal Adelaide," then to the
" Wellington," and then to the " Impregnable" training
ship for boys at Devonport. An attack of inflammation of
the lungs in 1862, being thirty-six years after his first
entering the navy, incapacitated him for further service
afloat, and he took his retirement. In 1863 he received the
Greenwich Hospital pension. He is the author of " Tabu-
lar instruction for schools," and "Tabular chronology,"
and " Tabular chronology for England, Scotland, &c.
without the use of figures," " Tabular teaching of Scriptures
for schools and families," etc. Was president of the
Penzance Institute Oct. 1S45, and on leaving the town
received a present of a silver inkstand. In 1860 he was
surgeon to the " Pride of Devon" lodge of Odd Fellows ;
whilst practising in Plymouth on being appointed to a ship
he resigned and received a testimonial of a piece of plate.
The following are the titles of some of his works: —
" System of general night signals for the use of H.M. ships
and squadrons," G. Muir; Malta, 1850, 2s. ; second edition
of same, F. Nicholson, Plymouth, 1852 ; third edition, 1852;
" Code of night signals on a system wherein colored lights
are introduced, arranged for the use of Her Majesty's navy
by order of the Lord Commissioners of the Admiralty
August, 1853."
His wife Grace Lucilla, sixth dau. of Hen. Boase and
Anne Craige, was b. 127, Sloane street, Chelsea, 27 Mch. 1S09,
and privately bapt. by the Rev. John Townshend. She
came to Penzance with her parents in 1811. In 1833 she
went to Falmouth, and resided with her sister Laura
Elizabeth Boase until 8 Oct. 1835, when she was m.
at Budock church by the Rev. Geo. Kempe to Mitchel
Thomson, surgeon r.n. as before mentioned. The issue of
this marriage were (1) Arthur Henry, (2) Lewis Charles, (3)
Alfred Mitchell, (4) Eustace Boase, (5) Lionel, (6) Sidney
Lambert, (1) Jessie Anna, (2) Lucy Emily.
(1) Arthur Henry Thomson was b. Queen square, Bristol,
5 Jan. 1837, and bapt. at Bridge street Chapel by the
Rev. Henry Roper. He went to Penzance with his
parents in 1837, and in Oct. 1845 removed to Plymouth,
his education was received at the Plymouth Grammar
School under Mr. Bennett, head master, and at Mr.
Weymouth's Portland Grammar School. Leaving
school at the age of fifteen he entered as a clerk in the
accountant's office of the South Devon Railway. On
the 8 Dec. 1855 he was appointed to a clerkship in
H.M. Dockyard, Devonport, here he gradually rose
until he had become Store Keeper at Keybam, and had
good prospects of further advancement, ill health how-
ever obliged him to quit the service, and ho retired on
a pension 8 Dec. 1873. Hem. 11 June 1867 Caroline,
b. 23 Jan. 1837, dau. of Henry and Emma Steele, and
has by heri Archibald Steele b. 20 June 1868 ; ii Arthur
Leonard b. Aug. 1S69 ; i Fanny Steele b. 13 Oct.
1870; ii Jessie Boase b. 25 Mch. 1S72 ; iii Emma
Caroline!). 16 Feb. 1874.
(2) Lewis Charles Thomson was b. 26, Clarence street,
Penzance 17 July 1843, and bap. at the Independent
Chapel by the Kev. John Fuxell. About two years
after his birth his parents removed to Frankfort street,
Plymouth. He was educated at Dr. Weymouth's
Portland Grammar School, Portland Villas, Plymouth,
from 1853 to 1858, and then entered the Accountant's
Office of the South Devon Railway, where he remained
from Christmas 1858 to 15 Feb. 1861. He removed
to London after this and became a clerk in the office
of the well known Parliamentary shorthand writers,
Messrs. W. B. Gurney and Sons, 26, Abingdon Street,
Westminster. The work here during the parliamentary
session, Feb. — Aug. 1861, was so hard and the confine-
ment so bad for the health, that, although the
remuneration was considerable, he was obliged to
resign his situation. On the 26 May 1862 after passing
a competitive examination he got an appointment of a
clerkship under the Admiralty at H.M. Dockyard,
Portsmouth, where he remained until 18 Sep. J 864,
when he was removed to H.M. Dockyard, Devonport,
where he still remains. He married at St. Mary's,
Penzance 3 Jan. 1874 his first cousin Julia second dau.
of J. J. A. Boase, who was b. at Lariggan, near
Penzance 5 Mch. 184 0, and bap. by the Rev. Edward
Shuttleworth, at St. Mary's, Penzance, 10 Apl. She
passed first class in the theory of music under the scheme
of tee Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Manu-
factures in London Apl. 1871, and received a certificate
dated28 June 1871. During 1872 and 1873 she nursed
her mother with the greatest care and kindness, and
continued her attention to her until her decease 10 Sep.
1873. She m. Lewis Charles Thomson, as before
mentioned : the issue of this marriage is a son Charles
Bertram b. 14, Seaton Terrace, Mutlev, Plvmouth 19
May 1875, bap. St. Andrew's, Plymouth 2S July.
(3) Alfred Mitchell Thomson was b. 26 Clarence street,
Penzance, 10 Apl. 1845, and bapt. at the Independent
Chapel by the Rev. John Foxell ; came with his parents
to Plymouth in 1845, and was educated at Mr. Greave's,
Mr. Weymouth's, and the Rev. Dr. Holmes' Schools.
In Oct. 1863, at eighteen years of age, he went with his
brother Eustace to the University of Glasgow
to study medicine, and took his M.B. and M.Ch.
degrees in 1869. He then acted as Assistant to Mr.
Alfred Prideaux, Liskeard ; to Mr. John C. Duke,
Lewisham road, Greenwich; and to Mr. George P.
Goldsmith, Bedford. After that he went as Surgeon in
the " Ottawa" Allan's Line of Steamers to the United
States and Canada, and remained in that Company's
service ten months, when he left and joined the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Co., and was appointed to the
" Mersey " trading between the West India Islands.
He was, however, lost overboard off Demerara, 27 Nov.
1S72, during the night, and his remains were not
recovered.
(4) Eustace Boase Thomson was b. II, Frankfort street.
Plymouth, 6 Apl. 1846, and bapt. at Norley Indepen-
dent Chapel by the Rev. Ebenezer Jones. After being
educated at Dr. Weymouth's and the Rev. Dr. Holmes'
Schools, at the age of seventeen, in Oct. 1863 he went
with his brother Alfred to the University of Glasgow