Nockold Tompson

Nockold Tompson (26 October 1714 – 1777) was a brewer who was Mayor of Norwich in 1759–60.

He was baptised on 21 November 1714 at St Michael Coslany, Norwich.

[2] Norwich Castle Museum holds a portrait of Tompson by John Theodore Heins Senior.

[4] Tompson farmed at Earlham Hall (now the site of the University of East Anglia); his crop-yield experiments were praised by Arthur Young in his Farmer's Calendar of 1771.

[5] He died in 1777, and was buried as a dissenter on 13 June that year in Norwich.