Thomas Thompson

Thomas Thompson (d. 1846) was appointed in December 1843 as a BMS missionary to Fernando Po. He and Thomas Milburn [Milbourne], (the latter married Catherine Knibb), were set apart for mission work by the church at Tuthill Stairs, Newcastle, in October 1843, a notice of which appeared in the Missionary Herald (December 1843), 683-684. He would sail in February 1845 from England to Cameroons on the maiden voyage of the Dove, an ironclad sailing schooner purchased by the BMS to transport missionaries to and from England and West Africa and the West Indies. An account of a portion of the maiden voyage, written by Thompson, appeared in the Juvenile Missionary Herald (1845), 155-156. Sadly, Thompson did not serve long in West Africa, dying there on 13 March 1846. See Geoffrey R. Breed, “The Dove,” Baptist Quarterly 40 (2004), 441-442.