British colonial administrator, prison governor and police officer
For the ballet dancer, see Basil Thompson.
Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (21 April 1861 – 26 March 1939) was a British colonial administrator and prison governor, who was head of Metropolitan Police CID during World War I. This gave him a key role in arresting wartime spies, and he was closely involved in the prosecution of Mata Hari, Sir Roger Casement and many Irish and Indian nationalists. His equating of Jews with Bolshevism led to accusations of anti-semitism. Thomson was also a successful novelist.
Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (21 April 1861 – 26 March 1939) was a British colonial administrator and prison governor, who was head of Metropolitan Police...
David Lloyd George, Sir BasilThomson was sacked, and the Home Intelligence Directorate was formally abolished. With Thomson out of the way, Special Branch...
fooled or lured. The 28th suggestion, inspired by a novel written by BasilThomson, was titled "A Suggestion (not a very nice one)." This idea was the...
one)", and continued: "The following suggestion is used in a book by BasilThomson: a corpse dressed as an airman, with despatches in his pockets, could...
arrested and taken to London, where she was interrogated at length by Sir BasilThomson, assistant commissioner at New Scotland Yard in charge of counter-espionage...
be found by the enemy. The following suggestion is used in a book by BasilThomson: a corpse dressed as an airman, with despatches in his pockets, could...
Hugh Sinclair Kirpal Singh Mansfield Smith-Cumming Bertrand Stewart BasilThomson Christopher Draper Peter Ashmun Ames John Wheeler-Bennett Carl Aschan...
considered part of everyday life. Of the traditional religion in Fiji, BasilThomson (1908:111) writes: "The religion of the Fijians was so closely interwoven...
acquainted with BasilThomson. Thomson was the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard's CID. The relationship between Gregory and Thomson lasted for several...
Helena Cass by Lawrence Rising (1920), The Vanishing Of Mrs. Fraser by BasilThomson (1925), The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway (1926) and films...
liaised extensively with the Special Branch of Scotland Yard (headed by BasilThomson), and succeeded in disrupting the work of Indian revolutionaries collaborating...
liaised extensively with the Special Branch of Scotland Yard (headed by BasilThomson), and succeeded in disrupting the work of Indian revolutionaries collaborating...
officer Leslie T. White, P.C. Richardson's First Case, 1933, by Sir BasilThomson, former Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, and the short story...
prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. That person was most likely Sir BasilThomson who on his dismissal from Scotland Yard apparently removed large quantities...
retire from his job in 1913. Macnaghten's successor at Scotland Yard was BasilThomson who had attended New College, Oxford at the same time as Montague John...
to arrest Baker and deport him to Fiji, likely with the support of BasilThomson. This subsequently evolved into an assassination plot, with four outlaws...
Ripper] escaped justice by committing suicide at the end of 1888" and Sir BasilThomson, made Assistant Commissioner of the CID in 1913: "[the Ripper was] an...
"Tauvu". Tau (friend); Vu (Spirit); having the same Vu, root or founder. BasilThomson (1908:113) suggests “that groups in Fiji who are tauvu or kalou-vata...
negotiating in Paris) from Aubrey's chief General George Macdonogh to Sir BasilThomson of Scotland Yard Special Branch i.e. from military to civilian in view...
Park, and convert you into a rubber worker to our joint profit." Sir BasilThomson headed Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Division during WWI "Ruairí...
Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director. Dearden was born at 5, Woodfield Road, Leigh-on-Sea...
Ruth died in childbirth in the 1918 influenza epidemic. In 1918, Sir BasilThomson, head of the Special Branch, asked Maundy Gregory to spy on Grayson...
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