Constituency : Taunton 1842-52, Lanarkshire 1857-68, North Lanarkshire 1868-85
Another mistake uncovered here. I had Thomas down as a Tory in 1859.
Thomas was the son of a great Sanskrit scholar. He inherited a baronetcy from his uncle in 1818. He spent time living in India and his early Parliamentary interventions usually concerned that subject. He visited the Crimea in 1854 to observe the military operation. He lived in Ottershaw, Surrey and built the parish church there.
In 1867 Thomas moved to restrict the county occupation franchise to dwelling houses to "prevent the creation of faggot votes".
Thomas was Dean of Faculties at the University of Glasgow from 1869 to 1872. He wrote a biography of the Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone.
He died in 1890 aged 77.
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