523 Sir Thomas Chambers

Constituency : Hertford 1852-7, Marylebone  1865-85

 Thomas  replaced  Lord  Fermoy  at  Marylebone.

Thomas  was  a Cambridge-educated  barrister. He  was  first  elected  for  Hertford  in  1852  but  lost  the  seat  in  1857.

Thomas  was  knighted  in  1872. He  was  President  of  the  National  Chamber  of  Trade  from  1874  to  1880. In  Parliament  he  was  noted  for  his  support  of  the  inspection  of  Convents  and  the  right  to  marry  your  dead  wife's  sister. In  1878  he  became  Recorder  of  London.

He  died  in  1891  aged  77.