Kenneth Graham Thomson

Kenneth Graham Thomas undertook research in to the life of John Robert Francis Wild with the aim of producing a biography. This research included extensive correspondence with the family of 'Frank', including his widow, brother, sisters and cousins. Thomson also wrote to the Scott Polar Research Institute and Wilds contemporaries. The biography covered the period of Wilds life from 1873 to 1916 when Thomson stopped work on it in 1956.

From the guide to the Kenneth Graham Thomson collection, 1951-1965, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)