Background
The eldest son of Sir Henry Thompson, a wine merchant of York, he inherited his father"s estate of Escrick in 1683.
The eldest son of Sir Henry Thompson, a wine merchant of York, 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 for York for five years, and, like his father, was Lord Mayor of York, in 1699.