drink each alternate evening a pint of Champagne and a pint of Burgundy.’ He was also a regular judge at horse shows. At age 59, Bond committed suicide on 6 June 1901 when, clad only in his nightdress, he threw himself from a bedroom window of his home at 7, the Sanctuary, Westminster, following a long period of insomnia caused by pain he had been suffering since middle-age, and which he had treated with narcotics. Thomas Bond was buried in Orchard Portman churchyard in Somerset. References External links Bond on Casebook:Jack the Ripper website 1841 births 1901 suicides 19th-century English medical doctors 20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of King's College London Jack the Ripper People of the Austro-Prussian War Railway surgeons Offender profiling Suicides by jumping in England Suicides in Westminster