“Master of Trinity College” William Hepworth Thompson Hand Written 4 Page Letter Dated 1873. (27 March 1810 – 1 October 1886) was an English. Scholar and Master of. Thompson was born at. And was privately educated in. Graduating BA as 4th classic in 1832, he became a Fellow of Trinity in 1834. In 1853 he was appointed. To which a canonry in. Was then for the first time attached, and in 1866 Master of Trinity College. Also in 1866, he married Frances Elizabeth, daughter of. With the exception of the year 1836, when he acted as headmaster of a newly established school in. His life was divided between Cambridge and Ely. Thompson died in Cambridge, at the Master’s Lodge, twenty years after being appointed Master. As Master and proved a worthy successor; the twenty years of his mastership were years of progress, and he himself took an active part in the abolition of tests (in particular the compulsory religious tests) and the reform of university studies and of the college statutes. In Trinity College An Historical Sketch. Trinity men were now in the forefront of the reform movement in Cambridge, no longer deprecating but welcoming the help of Parliament to remove from the living academic body the shackles of an age out-worn. The efforts Thompson and others played an important role in transforming Trinity College and Cambridge University into more meritocratic institutions. As a scholar Thompson devoted his attention almost entirely to. (1871), with especially valuable introductions, remained as the standard English editions of these two dialogues for over forty years. The quote “We are none of us infallible, not even the youngest of us” is attributed to Thompson and is recorded in Collections and Recollections by. (1898) and also in Trinity College An Historical Sketch by G. Thompson uttered these words while Master of Trinity at a College Meeting of the Fellowship on 30 March 1878. As noted above, this was a time of great reformation within the College, willingly supported by Thompson. Then a junior Fellow of the College, later politician and. Chief Secretary for Ireland. Proposed a revision of the College Statutes. The quote was, as Trevelyan puts it, “directed in a kindly spirit at the reforming zeal of a group of junior Fellows”. Incidentally, the motion was seconded by. One of the most senior Fellows. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “historicsellsmemorabilia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay.