Sir William Thompson (1678 – 27 October 1739) of Middle Temple, was an English judge and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1709 and 1729.
He was educated at Brentwood Grammar School (Essex) and admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge on 25 April 1691, aged 14.
He married by licence dated 16 July 1701, Mrs Joyce Brent, a widow of St Clement Danes, Middlesex.
He was involved in the prosecution of Sacheverell's riotous supporters, Daniel Dammaree, Francis Willis, and George Purchase over the period March to April 1710.
[2] Thompson regained the seat in the 1715 general election, and retained it until his elevation to the exchequer bench in November 1729.
[4] In 1717 William Thompson introduced an act into the House of Commons that eventually became law in 1718 (4 Geo.