Robert Francis Stafford Thompson
Robert Francis Stafford Thompson (1890-1918)
1919 Obituary [1]
ROBERT FRANCIS STAFFORD THOMPSON was born at Morecambe on 24th January 1890.
He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, and Aylwin College, Arnside.
In 1908 he began a three-years' apprenticeship in the locomotive works of the Furness Railway, and studied at the Barrow Technical School in the evenings.
On the completion of his apprenticeship he remained with the Company as Inspector of Materials.
Subsequently he had charge of the hydraulic engines at Barrow Docks, and later of the locomotive sheds at Carnforth.
This post he held to the time of his death, which took place from influenza at Bolton-le-Sands on 11th November 1918, in his twenty-ninth year.
He was elected an Associate Member of this Institution in 1915.
1919 Obituary.[2]
Robert Francis Stafford Thompson was born on the 24th January, 1890.
He was educated at Lancaster Grammar School from 1903 to 1906 and at Aylwin College, Carnforth, from 1906 to 1908, and at the Technical College, Barrow-in-Furness, where he obtained the highest awards, also passing the examination for Associate Member of the Institution Civil Engineers.
In May, 1908, he was apprenticed to Mr. W. Pettigrew, Locomotive Engineer, Furness Rly., where passed through the various shops, drawing office, and a course of firing.
He afterwards man and later as pointed in charge of the Hydraulic Department at the Barrow Docks, Furness Railway.
He died on November nth, 1918, from pneumonia following influenza. On March 23rd, 1918, he was elected an Associate Member of the Institution.