William Thompson (poet, born circa 1712)
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William Thompson (c. 1712 – c. 1766) was an 18th-century English poet and Anglican priest.
William Thompson was the son of Rev. Francis Thompson, vicar of Brough in Westmoreland, NW England, who died in 1735; William's date of birth is not known.[1] William Thompson studied at Queen's College, Oxford, which his father had also attended, and graduated with a Master of Arts in 1738, afterwards becoming a fellow of the college.[2]
Thompson became rector of Hampton Poyle with South Weston in Oxfordshire.[3] He published his collected poems in two volumes in 1757.[4]
