Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, 1st Baronet (5 October 1912 – 15 July 1999) was a British Conservative politician.

He was educated at Malvern College and in India, Burma and Sri Lanka and worked in Calcutta and the Far East in business.

He was serving on HMS Hermione in 1942 when the ship was sunk whilst part of the Malta convoy.

Sir Richard was succeeded by his only son Nicholas Annesley Marler Thompson born 19 March 1947 at Bridge Kent, who inherited the baronetcy in 1999.

This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom representing an English constituency and born in the 1910s is a stub.