William Thompson (bishop)
William Jameson Thompson, CBE (27 October 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a long-serving Anglican bishop[1] who spent much of his career in Iran (then Persia).[2]
Educated at Monkton Combe School[3] and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Great War as an officer in the Royal Engineers. Ordained in 1921,[4] he was initially principal of the Stuart Memorial College, Isfahan[5] then archdeacon of the area until his elevation to the episcopate as the third Anglican bishop of Iran in 1935. He retired in 1960[6] and died 15 years later.
William Thompson's daughter, Margaret, married Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who succeeded him as Bishop in Iran; their daughter in turn, Guli Francis-Dehqani, became the first bishop of Loughborough and subsequently bishop of Chelmsford.
References[edit]
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ National Archives
- ^ "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
- ^ Encyclopaedia Iranica
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 8 Sep 1960; p. 14; Issue 54871; col B Ecclesiastical News Bishop in Iran To Retire
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- 1885 births
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- People educated at Monkton Combe School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Royal Engineers officers
- Anglican archdeacons in Iran
- Anglican bishops of the Diocese of Iran
- 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Middle East
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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