Background
Lloyd A. Thompson was born on June 24, 1932, in Barbados.
St John's College, St John's Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP, United Kingdom
Lloyd A. Thompson received a Master of Arts degree from St. John's College, Cambridge.
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The wide-ranging study brings welcome clarity to the discussion of blacks in the Roman world, and is valuable for all students of race relations as well as classicists and historians.
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1989
Lloyd A. Thompson was born on June 24, 1932, in Barbados.
Lloyd A. Thompson received a Master of Arts degree from St. John's College, Cambridge.
Lloyd A. Thompson devoted his entire life to the service at the University of Ibadan. He joined its staff in 1956 as an assistant lecturer when the school was just in its infancy. By 1964, he became a senior lecturer and had attained the rank of professor of classics and ancient history two years later. Thompson was made the chair of the Humanities Visitation Panel in 1973 and dean of the faculty of arts in a couple of years. The scholar stayed with Ibadan until 1995 and received recognition as the longest-serving member of the academic staff.
During his career, Lloyd A. Thompson was also a visiting fellow of St. John’s College at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. He wrote several books as well. His ‘Studies in Cicero’ written in collaboration with J. Ferguson, A. R. Hands and W. A. Laidlaw was published in 1962. He teamed with Ferguson again for ‘Africa in Classical Antiquity’. Lloyd A. Thompson tried himself as an editor while editing Museum Africum periodical from 1972 to 1984. In 1989 Thompson issued ‘Romans and Blacks’, which concerned racism.
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1989Lloyd A. Thompson pursued his interest in cricket while serving at the University of Ibadan by becoming captain of the staff team.