Richard Windeyer Thompson (1832 – 29 November 1906) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to surveyor John Thompson and Ann Mary Windeyer. On 27 April 1864 he married Sarah Alice Bedwell, with whom he had eight children. A solicitor, he settled in Maitland in 1865. In 1885 he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

as the member for

West Maitland Maitland () is a city in the Lower Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia and the seat of Maitland City Council, situated on the Hunter River approximately by road north of Sydney and north-west of Newcastle. It is on the New England ...

. A

Free Trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold ...

r, he was re-elected in 1887 and 1889 but was defeated in 1891. Thompson died in West Maitland in 1906.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Richard 1832 births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians