English: George Thompson, jnr. (1804–1895), the son of Andrew Thompson, of the H.E.I.C.S. (Honorable East India Company Service). In 1825 he commenced business in Aberdeen as a ship and insurance broker, and was the originator of the well-known “Aberdeen White Line,” of which his son-in-law, Sir William Henderson, was afterwards the head. A portrait of Mr Thompson, by Sir George Reid, R.S.A., in the Art Gallery of Aberdeen.