David Thomson Federal Security Agency Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts is a British Church of England bishop.
Education
Thomson was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield), followed by Keble College, Oxford, where he was awarded an Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy (1978), and Westcott House and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied theology.
Career
Since 2008, he has been Bishop of Huntingdon, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Ely. Ordained in 1982, he was a curate in Maltby, South Yorkshire, and then team vicar of Banbury, rector of Cockermouth and finally, before being ordained to the episcopate, the Archdeacon of Carlisle. Episcopal ministry
Thomson was consecrated as a bishop in Southwark Cathedral on 3 July 2008 and installed as Bishop of Huntingdon in Ely Cathedral on 17 October that year.
During a lengthy vacancy in Suffolk"s diocesan see (while that diocese had no suffragan) from 20 October 2013 to 7 May 2015, he was also the Acting Bishop of Street Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
A medieval historian, Thomson is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society as well as an Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His academic works include A Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts (1979) and An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts (1984). His most recent work was on the Bewcastle Cross.
He has also published a series of devotional books, A Journey with John, Lent with Luke, Christmas by Candelight and Ways to Pray. Doctor David Thomson (1978–1981)
The Reverend Doctor David Thomson (1981–2002)
The Venerable Doctor David Thomson (2002–2008)
The Right Reverend Doctor David Thomson (2008–present).