THOMPSON, William I (1629-92), of Scarborough, Yorks.

Thompson may have been one of James II’s Whig collaborators. Returned unopposed on his own interest at Scarborough in 1690 he was classed as a Whig by Lord Carmarthen (Sir Thomas Osborne†) in a list of the new Parliament. Either he or his son Francis* told on 26 Apr. 1690 against rejecting the abjuration bill, and in April 1691 Robert Harley* listed him as an opponent of the Court. Thompson’s death was reported by Luttrell in February 1692. Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 372.