Sir Geoffrey Harington Thompson, GBE, KCMG (12 March 1898 – 26 January 1967) was a British diplomat.
[2] He was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserve) in 1917, and served in France and Flanders in 1917–18, where he was wounded, and in Rhine in 1919.
[1] He was appointed a Third Secretary HM Diplomatic Service in 1920, transferred to Rio de Janeiro the same year, and to Washington D.C. in 1922.
Promoted to First Secretary in 1932, he was transferred to the Foreign Office in 1934, and to the British Embassy to Spain in Valencia, then to Hendaye (where it had been evacuated) in 1937; he was chargé d'affaires there in September 1937 and in January–June 1938.
In retirement, Thompson became a director of Atlas Assurance Company, and published his memoirs, Front-line Diplomat (Hutchinson, 1959).