Alexander Hamilton Thompson, CBE FBA FSA (7 November 1873 – 4 September 1952) was a historian.
Thompson was born on 7 November 1873 at Clifton, Bristol, the son of The Reverend John Thompson, Vicar of St Gabriel's, Bristol, and his wife Annie Hastings (née Cooper, daughter of Canon David Cooper).
In 1922, Thompson moved to the University of Leeds, where he was appointed Reader in Medieval History and promoted to Professor two years later.
He was Birkbeck Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1933-35 on The English Church at the Opening of the Sixteenth Century.
[1] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1938 and served as president of the Royal Archaeological Institute from 1939 to 1945.