Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. It is one of seven Quaker
Bootham School, Bootham, York. The main building was originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1891 and was known for his work as
Photograph from Thompson's obituary in the Proceedings of the Royal Society
Silvanus Thompson, at about the age of 25.
Silvanus Thompson presenting the 1910 Royal Institution Christmas Lecture
Plaque for Thompson, sponsored by the Institute of Physics, on the front of the main building at Bootham School, York.