William Thompson (New South Wales politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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politician in New South Wales, Australia
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About William Thompson (New South Wales politician)
- William Thompson (22 January 1862 – 6 October 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Queanbeyan to surveyor James Banford Thompson and Margaret Carroll.
- From 1878 to 1885 he was a clerk in the Colonial Architect's office, before becoming a quantity surveyor and moving to Ryde in 1898.
- On 4 March 1885 he had married Florence Single, with whom he had two children.
- He owned a horse farm on the Hawkesbury River and was a founder of the William Thompson Masonic School at Baulkham Hills NSW, which operated from 1922 to 1972, and the New South Wales Masonic Schools Welfare Fund which, as A Start in Life, continues to assist indigent youth.
- He was a Freemason and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New South Wales 1914-1924.
- In 1913 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Ryde, serving until his retirement in 1920.
- Thompson died at Ashfield in 1937.
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