Constituency : Peterborough 1853-68 ,1874-80
Thomson was a West India merchant and banker who served as Governor of the Bank of England from 1851-3. He stood unsuccessfully for Boston in 1852 then was elected for Peterborough at a by-election in 1853 when his opponent George Whalley was disqualified after a tortuous sequence of legal wrangling.
Thomson was a frequent speaker in the House on financial matters.
Thomson was unseated by a fellow Liberal in 1868 but returned in 1874. He lost again in 1880 and declined to contest the by-election which arose in 1883.
Thomson was an authority on political economy and wrote a book on the principles of banking published in 1887.
He died in 1893 aged 88.
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