George Henry Thompson

George Henry Thompson (1848 – 9 June 1940) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

Thompson was born at Gulgong, New South Wales, to George Thompson and his wife Martha and educated at the Gulgong State School. The beginning of 1885 saw Thompson in Brisbane working for the Brisbane Courier but left to work for the Boomerang newspaper after an altercation with management.

When the Labour Party starting forming governments in Queensland, it found much of its legislation being blocked by a hostile Council, where members had been appointed for life by successive conservative governments. After a failed referendum in May 1917, Premier Ryan tried a new tactic, and later that year advised the Governor, Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, to appoint thirteen new members whose allegiance lay with Labour to the council.

In 1920, the new Premier Ted Theodore appointed a further fourteen new members to the Council with Thompson amongst the appointees. He served for two years until the council was abolished in March 1922.

Personal life On 19 September 1888, Thompson married Margaret Ann Dunn (died 1929) at Brisbane and together had two daughters. After a relatively short illness, he died in Brisbane in June 1940 and was privately cremated.