John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham (c. 1648 – 1 November 1710), known as Sir John Thompson, Bt, between 1673 and 1696, was an English politician. Thompson was the son of

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(1601/4-1676), of St Andrew, Eastcheap,

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and Haversham, "England's greatest colonial merchant of his day", who at one time obtained a monopoly of the Virginia tobacco trade. His mother was Dorothy Vaux, daughter of John Vaux, of

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. He was

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between 1669 and 1670thepeerage.com John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham
/ref> and was created a Baronet, of

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in the County of Buckingham, in 1673. In 1685 he was returned to Parliament for Gatton, a seat he held until 1696, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Haversham, of Haversham in the County of Buckingham. Between 1699 and 1701 he was a

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. Lord Haversham married firstly Lady Frances Annesley, daughter of

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, and widow of Francis Wyndham, in 1688. They had at least eleven children. After her death in March 1705 he married secondly Martha Graham, a widow, in 1709. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Haversham died at

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in November 1710 and was succeeded in his titles by his son,

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. Lady Haversham died in 1724.

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