William Thompson (New South Wales politician)

William Thompson (22 January 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Queanbeyan to surveyor James Banford Thompson and Margaret Carroll. From 1878 to 1885 he was a clerk in the Colonial Architect's office, before becoming a quantity surveyor and moving to Ryde in 1898. On 4 March 1885 he had married Florence Single, with whom he had two children. He owned a horse farm on the Hawkesbury River and was a founder of the New South Wales Masonic Schools Welfare Fund. He was a Freemason and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales 1914-1924.^[1] In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Ryde, serving until his retirement in 1920. Thompson died at Ashfield in 1937.^[2]

References

1. "LATE MR. WILLIAM THOMPSON". Windsor and Richmond Gazette. 49, (2891). New South Wales, Australia. 22 October 1937. p. 10. Retrieved 22 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
2. "Mr William Thompson (1862–1937)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. 2008. Retrieved 13 September 2014.