Henry Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baron Knaresborough

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Sir Henry Meysey Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baron Knaresborough (30 August 1845 – 3 March 1929) was a Liberal Party (and later Liberal Unionist) politician in the United Kingdom.

In 1874, he succeeded to the Meysey-Thompson baronetcy which had been created less than two months earlier for his father Harry, taking the title of Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson, 2nd Baronet.

He was Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Knaresborough from 1880 to 1881, and for Brigg from 1885 to 1886. In 1886, as one of the MPs who opposed Gladstone's Irish Home Rule Bill, he joined the breakaway Liberal Unionist Party, but was not re-elected.

He returned to the House of Commons at the 1892 general election, as MP for Handsworth (on the outskirts of Birmingham), and held that seat until he was ennobled on 26 December 1905 as Baron Knaresborough.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Basil Thomas Woodd	Member of Parliament for Knaresborough 1880–1881	Succeeded by Thomas Collins
Preceded by (new constituency)	Member of Parliament for Brigg 1885–1886	Succeeded by Samuel Danks Waddy
Preceded by Henry Samuel Wiggin	Member of Parliament for Handsworth 1892–1905	Succeeded by Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson	Baronet of Kirby Hall, Yorkshire 1874–1929	Succeeded by Algar de Clifford Charles Meysey-Thompson
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baron Knaresborough 1905–1929	Succeeded by (extinct)