William Thomson (1819–90)

Clergyman. BA, Oxford (Queen’s College), 1840. Ordained priest, 1843. College tutor, chaplain, and dean, Queen’s College, 1847; junior bursar, 1852; bursar, 1854. Select preacher, Oxford University, 1848; Bampton lecturer, 1853. Provost of Queen’s College, 1855. Chaplain-in-ordinary to the queen, 1859. Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, 1861–2; archbishop of York, 1862–90.