Edward Thompson (of Sheriff Hutton) explained

Edward Thompson (ca. 1639 – 6 August 1701) was an English landowner and politician.

Edward and his brother Sir Henry Thompson were wine merchants of York; Edward became the principal mover of the business after his brother moved to his new estate at Escrick in 1668. He was a particular friend of Andrew Marvell.^[1] During the reign of Charles II, Edward bought the estate of Sheriff Hutton for his own country residence.^[2] He was Lord Mayor of York in 1683.^{[3] [4]} He was three times Member of Parliament for York, beginning in 1689.

He married Frances Thompson and had two children: Leonard, who married his second cousin once removed, Frances Thompson of Escrick, and died without issue in 1744, and Richard (d. 1753), twice Lord Mayor of York.^[3]

References

1. Web site: Papers of Henry Thompson . 2006-09-28 . dead . https://archive.today/20120720022850/http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/03011503.html . 20 July 2012 . dmy-all .
2. Web site: Sheriff Hutton . 2006-09-28.
3. Book: Foster, Joseph . Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire . 1874 . London.
4. Drake, Francis (1736), Eboracum: or, The history and antiquities of the city of York, from its original to the present times: Together with the history of the cathedral church, and the lives of the archbishops of that see ..., Printed by W. Bowyer for the author, p. 366