Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson FRSE DCL (27 March 1881 – 9 February 1955) was an English educational psychologist known as a critical pioneer in intelligence research.

[1] The Godfrey Thomson Unit for Research at Moray College in Edinburgh is named in his honour.

His parents separated when he was a young boy, and his mother moved the two of them to her native town of Felling located in Tyneside.

His proposers were Ralph Allan Sampson, Alexander Morgan, Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker and Norman Kemp Smith.

[9] In 1931 he was responsible for organizing and analyzing the Scottish Mental Survey: Scotland's contribution to a European assessment of comparison between different countries in school examinations and their values.