THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell. Kensington (London) 21.5.1876 — London 23.5.1941. British Archaeologist and Assyriologist. Son of physician Reginald Edward Thompson (1834–1912) and Anne Isabella De Morgan, educated in London. Studies of Semitic languages at Cambridge (Caius College). From 1899-1905 in British Museum as Assistant to —> L. W. King, accompanied him to Behistun. In 1907-09 Assistant Professor in Semitic Languages, University of Chicago. In WW I served in Mesopotamia, 1914-19. After war Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1923-41). In 1938-41 Reader in Assyriology at Oxford. Conducted many excavations in Mesopotamia (Niniveh, Ur, Carchemish). Fellow of British Academy 1934. Married 1911 Barbara Brodrick (1887?–1971), two sons and one daughter.
Publications: With L. W. King: The Sculptures and Inscriptions of Darius the Great on the Rock of Bihistûn. 223 p. L. 1907.
– Much on Assyriology, e.g. The Epic of Gilgamesh. 92 p. Oxford 1930; also wrote fiction (with nom-de-plume John Guisborough).
Sources: *G.R. Driver, Proc. Br. Acad. 30, 1-39; *S. Smith, Nature 147, 1941, 799; britishmuseum.org; Wikipedia with photo.
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