The Late Mr THOMPSON Print E-mail

Hundreds of people living in Maryport. Dearham, Broughton Moor and Flimby, and many scattered further afield, feel that they have lost a good friend by the death of George THOMPSON.
 
 
The trade of barber brought him into close touch with many people and it is doubtful that there was anyone better known or more popular in the town. Always jolly, and fond of any clean healthy fun, he was the kind of man who passed tranquilly on from day to day making the world about him a little brighter and happier to live in.
 
 
He was greatly attached to his elder sister, the late Mrs. GIBSON, and her declining health was a great trouble to him, though few friends of his ever guessed it. A good baritone concert singer, an active worker for Christ Church, and a lifelong member of the Oddfellows Society and club rooms, his activities outside his business will be missed by several large bodies of Maryport people.
 
 
The exhibits of Mr. THOMPSON and his nephew, Mr. John GIBSON, at Cumberland shows in which there were certain classes for canaries, made him well known to bird fanciers throughout the country. Breeding canaries was his hobby and took first place in his sporting interest, with the doings of the local football clubs of both codes and the Maryport billiards players a close second.
 
 
 
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