William Jameson Thompson, CBE (27 October 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a long-serving Anglican bishopNational Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives who spent much of his career in Iran (then Persia).National Archives
Educated at Monkton Combe School"Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 and Trinity College, Cambridge, he served in the Great War as an officer in the Royal Engineers. Ordained in 1921,Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 he was initially principal of the Stuart Memorial College, IsfahanEncyclopaedia Iranica then archdeacon of the area until his elevation to the episcopate as the third Anglican bishop of Iran in 1935. He retired in 1960The Times, Thursday, 8 Sep 1960; p. 14; Issue 54871; col B Ecclesiastical News Bishop in Iran To Retire and died 15 years later.
William Thompson's daughter, Margaret, married Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who succeeded him as in Iran; their daughter in turn, Guli Francis-Dehqani, became the first bishop of Loughborough and subsequently bishop of Chelmsford.
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