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Rev. William Thompson (1712 - 1766) was an 18th-century English poet.
William Thompson was the son of Rev. Francis Thompson, vicar of Brough in Westmoreland, NW England, who died in 1735; William's date of birth is not known. [1] William Thompson studied at Queen's College, Oxford, which his father had also attended, and graduated with a Master of Arts in 1738, afterwards becoming a fellow of the college. [2]
Thompson became rector of Hampton Poyle with South Weston in Oxfordshire. [3] He published his collected poems in two volumes in 1757. [4]
He is best known for the long poem Sickness (1746), which discusses various illnesses including melancholy, fever, consumption, and variola. [5] Other poems include Epithalamium,Nativity, and Hymn to May, as well as a panegyric to Alexander Pope. [6]
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