William Thompson (bishop)

{{Short description|Anglican bishop, born 1885}}

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{{other people|William Thompson}}

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William Jameson Thompson, CBE (27 October 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a long-serving Anglican bishop[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo=='W.Temple/1-62/48/284-96'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives] who spent much of his career in Iran (then Persia).[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=109-aa_1-1_1-2&cid=-1#-1 National Archives]

Educated at Monkton Combe School"Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Great War as an officer in the Royal Engineers. Ordained in 1921,Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 he was initially principal of the Stuart Memorial College, Isfahan[http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/isfahan-xv-education-and-cultural-affairs Encyclopaedia Iranica] then archdeacon of the area until his elevation to the episcopate as the third Anglican bishop of Iran in 1935. He retired in 1960The Times, Thursday, 8 Sep 1960; p. 14; Issue 54871; col B Ecclesiastical News Bishop in Iran To Retire and died 15 years later.

William Thompson's daughter, Margaret, married Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who succeeded him as {{As written|Bishop}} in Iran; their daughter in turn, Guli Francis-Dehqani, became the first bishop of Loughborough and subsequently bishop of Chelmsford.