778 Thomas Thompson

Constituency : City  of  Durham  1874, 1880-5

Thomas  reversed  the  by-election  loss  of  1871  at  Durham.

Thomas  was  a  barrister  educated  at  Harrow  and  University  College, Durham.  He  came  from  a  wealthy  family with  an  estate  at  Sherburn  Hall, He  unsuccessfully  contested  Sunderland  in  1868  on  a  radical  platform  including  support  for  female  suffrage  and  the  abolition  of  religious  disabilities.

Thomas's  election  in  1874  was  declared  void  almost  immediately. He  was  re-elected  in  1880.

Thomas  was  a  noted  philanthropist.

He  died  in  1892  aged  71.