D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1829–1902) was an English scholar, from 1863 Professor of Greek at Queen's College, Galway.
D'Arcy was the elder son of John Skelton Thompson, shipmaster, and his wife Mary Mitchell, both of Maryport, Cumberland; it was a seafaring family, and he was born at sea on board his father's barque Georgiana, off Van Diemen's Land, on 18 April 1829.
At Cambridge his main tutors were Augustus Arthur Vansittart and with Joseph Barber Lightfoot, both of Trinity; his closest friends were James Lempriere Hammond and Peter Guthrie Tait.
in 1852, Thompson became classical master at the Edinburgh Academy, where Robert Louis Stevenson was one of his pupils.
[1] At Cambridge, Thompson gained a medal for Latin verse in 1849 with an ode Maurorum in Hispania Imperium.