[1] He worked for the law firm Bischoff, Coxe and Bompas and was a solicitor for several of their companies.

He later was employed as a lawyer in the George Earl Church debt contract with Bolivia.

[1] Bompas took interest in astronomy and studied periodic meteor showers and the Zodiacal light.

[5] This was controversial because such a position usually invited disapproval from the Victoria Institute's membership who favoured creationism.

However, Bompas was a solicitor from a well-regarded Baptist family so his paper received an unusually mild reaction.