Thompson, WILLIAM HEPWORTH

Thompson, WILLIAM HEPWORTH, Master of Trinity, was born at York in 1810, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, became regius professor of Greek in 1853, and in 1866 succeeded Whewell as master of his college. A brilliant classical scholar and a profound student of Greek philosophy, he projected a great edition of Plato, but accomplished only the Phaedrus and Gorgias, so that, though by his teaching he left an enduring mark on Cambridge scholarship, he is chiefly remembered by a few incomparable sarcasms. He died 1st October 1886.