Vice Admiral Evelyn Claude Ogilvie Thomson CB DSO (13 April 1884 – 21 December 1942) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland.

Thomson joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1899.

[1] He served in World War I[2] and commanded the destroyer HMS Petard at the Battle of Jutland.

[3] He was appointed Commander of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla in 1926, Captain-in-charge in Singapore in 1929 and Commander of the boys' training establishment HMS St Vincent in Gosport in 1932.

[2] He went on to be Commander of the Home Fleet Destroyer Flotillas in 1935 and Commander-in-Chief, Coast of Scotland in 1937.