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Ralph Thompson (poet)
Ralph Thompson (born 1928), is a Jamaican businessman, educational activist, artist and poet.
== Life and business career ==
Thompson was born in Poughkeepsie, NY, to a Jamaican mother and US father, but the marriage lasted only three years, and from 1931 he and his sister were raised in Jamaica. His mother's family, "a mixture of crypto Jewish (Isaacs) and Irish stock (Fielding)", was "staunchly Catholic and claimed to be white".〔"About the author", in Ralph Thompson, ''View from Mount Diablo'' (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2003), p. 56.〕 He was educated by Jesuits both at St George's College in Kingston and at Fordham University in New York, where he earned a Doctor of Law degree in 1952. After graduation he served for two years as an officer in the United States Air Force, principally in Japan, but returned to Jamaica in 1953, married a Jamaican, Doreen Lyons, in 1954, and has since lived in Kingston with his wife and children save for a brief period in the 1970s.
Thompson's business career was initially in property development with Abe Issa, the "father of Jamaican tourism", then independently. After his return to Jamaica he was deeply involved in governmental redevelopment of agriculture, and in 1988 was appointed a Commander of Distinction by the administration of Edward Seaga. His last major post was as CEO of Seprod Ltd, a large Jamaican manufacturing firm supplying household products and consumer goods for the local market.
Thompson is also a noted educational activist, speaking on radio and TV, and frequently writing for ''The Gleaner'' and ''The Observer''. He is also an amateur painter, and has publicly exhibited several times in Kingston; a selection of his paintings was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2008.〔Jacqueline Bishop, ed., ''Writers Who Paint / Painters Who Write: Three Jamaican Artists'' (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2007), pp. 32-45.〕
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