Henry Thompson was an English landowner and politician.

The eldest son of Sir Henry Thompson

Henry Thompson (1625-1683)

Sir Henry Thompson was an English merchant and politician.Henry and his brother Edward Thompson were wine merchants of York. He was Lord Mayor of York in 1663, and was made a deputy lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1665. In 1668, Henry moved from York to a new country estate at...

, a wine merchant of York

York

York is a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. The city has a rich heritage and has provided the backdrop to major political events throughout much of its two millennia of existence...

, he inherited his father's estate of Escrick in 1683. He had already lived there for some time during his father's life, and remodeled the old house between 1680 and 1690. He was then Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for York for five years, and, like his father, was Lord Mayor of York

Lord Mayor of York

The Lord Mayor of York is the Lord Mayor, Chairman of City of York Council, first citizen and civic head of York. The appointment is made by the council each year in May, at the same time appointing a Sheriff, the city's other civic head...

, in 1699.

By his first wife, Frances Swann, he had a daughter, Frances, who married her second cousin once removed, Leonard Thompson of Sheriff Hutton

Sheriff Hutton

Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. It lies about ten miles north by north-east of York...

. By his second wife, Mary Beilby, he had a son, Beilby Thompson (d. 1750), who inherited Escrick.