Edward Thompson (26 February 1697 – 5 July 1742) was a Yorkshire politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1742.
In 1722, Thompson was elected Member of Parliament for York, a seat he held for the remainder of his life.
[2] Employed as a Commissioner of the Land Revenue in Ireland, he issued a pamphlet justifying the introduction of a general excise there.
By her he had one daughter:[1] Thompson separated from Arabella, who later bore two children to her brother-in-law Sir George Oxenden.
[5] By his second wife, Mary Moor (d. 1784), he had a second daughter:[1] On 5 May 1741, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Admiralty, but died the following year.