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extreme conscientiousness gave rise to a want of rapidity of action 

 which was perhaps the cnly fault in a singularly perfect character. 



Purity and honour in word and deed and thought, gentleness of 

 disposition, readiness to spend his labour, his time, his mental 

 energies for others, and for the good of the world in general, all were 

 conspicuous in his life both in public and in private. 



Professor Thomson was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1877 ; and he received the honorary degree of D.Sc. from the 

 Queen's University in Ireland, and of LL.D. from his own University 

 of Glasgow, and from the University of Dublin. 



In 1853 he married Elizabeth Hancock, daughter of William John 

 Hancock, Esq., J.P., of Lurgan, Co. Armagh, a lady who devoted 

 herself to every minutest interest of her husband's life. They had 

 one son and two daughters, of whom the son and elder daughter 

 survive. 



J. T. B. 



