Garry Thomson
Robert Howard Garry Thomson
Biography
Robert Howard Garry Thomson (known as Garry Thomson) was born on Carey Island, Malaya, where his father was a planter producing palm oil. He attended
. From 1951 to 1955, he worked on the editorial staff of ‘A History of Technology’, then began his long association with theProfessional life
Garry Thomson began his career as a Research
Editorships
- Honorary editor from 1959 to 1967 of Studies in Conservation, the journal of the International Institute for Conservation(IIC).
- Recent Advances in Conservation (1963)
- Museum Climatology (1967).
The Museum Environment
Garry Thomson made a significant contribution to
Honours and awards
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) appointed in 1983.
- Recipient of the ICCROM Award (1986).
- The first recipient of the Plowden Gold Medal (1999).
Personal life
Garry Thomson married, in 1954, Mom Rajawongse Saisvasdi Svasti (known as Noy), the daughter of a Thai prince. They had four sons.[5] Outside of his family and professional life the other consuming interest of Thomson's life was Buddhism, which dated back to his time as an undergraduate at Cambridge, where he started a Buddhist group.
For several decades he was a member of the Buddhist Society of London, one of Europe's earliest Buddhist organisations, serving on its council and as vice-president (1978–88); he also taught its basic meditation class. He gave public talks and wrote articles and book reviews for the society's journal Middle Way, and was a regular and enthusiastic contributor to the society's summer school. Producing numerous talks.[6] Thomson proved a very influential teacher at a time when interest in Buddhist practice was growing rapidly. Not only was he unassuming, kind and generous with his time; he also brought to the practice of meditation a mind trained in science — intelligent, open, objective and questioning.[7]
Publications
- The Museum Environment (1978) (1986)
- Reflections on the life of Buddha(1982)
- The Sceptical Buddhist (1995)
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
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- ^ "ICCROM - obituary: Garry Thomson 1926 - 2007". Archived from the original on 3 October 2008. Retrieved 5 August 2008.
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- ^ "The Buddhist Society".
- ^ "Garry Thomson". 2 June 2007.