Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko William Wardlaw Thompson (te ra whanau kaore i te mohiotia - i mate i te tau 1917) he ichthyologist me te zoologist o Awherika ki te Tonga. E mōhiotia ana i whakaako ia ki te Whare Wānanga o Awherika ki te Tonga i Cape Town i waenganui i te 1858 me te 1863 a ka whiwhi ia i tētahi tūranga i runga i te mahi tūmatanui o te Cape Colony i te 1877 i roto i te Tari Railway hei kaitiaki wā. I te marama o Hanuere 1878 i whakawhiwhia ia ki tetahi tuunga tuuturu hei kaitohutohu i te Tari Mahi a te Katoa, i eke ai ia ki te Kaitohutohu Tuatahi i te tau 1882. I te marama o Hanuere 1885 i whakawhitihia ia ki te tūranga o te Kaiwhakahaere Tuhinga Kaiwhakahaere i te Tari Whenua Karauna i whakatairangahia i te Hōngongoi 1889 ki te kaitohutohu tuatahi i te Tari Ahuwhenua e eke ana ki te tūranga o te kaitohutohu matua mahi i reira i te marama o Noema 1897. I mua i tēnei kua tangohia e ia, ka haere ana i ona whakamātautau Civil Service Ture, a ka mahi hoki ia ki te Duke o Edinburgh Own Volunteer Rifles i roto i te Transkei i roto i te
Ko te Pakanga 9 o te Rohe i te Hui-tanguru ki te Mei 1879 me Basutoland i te Mahuru 1880 ki te Poutu-te-rangi 1881 i te Pakanga Basuto Gun. I tohua a Thompson ki te Poari Ika o te Cape Colony i te Oketopa 1897.