Early Life and Family
Thompson was born in Warburton, a town north-east of Melbourne. His parents were both schoolteachers. His father died when he was two, and he was raised by his mother, Ethel Thompson in difficult circumstances.
He won a scholarship to Caulfield Grammar School and eventually graduated as both school captain and the dux of school. The school's new gymnasium was opened as the Lindsay Thompson Centre in 1997.
After service as a signalman in the Australian Army during World War II, he graduated from the University of Melbourne with degrees in Arts (Honours) and Education, and became a school teacher, teaching at Malvern Central Primary School and later at Melbourne High School.
In 1950 Thompson married Joan Poynder, and they had three children. Thompson's son Murray has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 1992.
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