Thursday, 16 January 2014
388 Thomas Weguelin
Constituency : Southampton 1857-9, Wolverhampton 1861-80
Thomas came in at Wolverhampton when Richard Bethell was elevated to the Woolsack.
Thomas was the son of a Russian merchant based in London. He had international business interests, an insurance company in England, a railway company in California and finance house in Canada. He was a governor of the Bank of England from 1855 to 1859.
In 1857 he helped found a new international bank based in Paris, the International Society for Commercial Credit.He lost his seat at Southampton in 1859.
Most of Thomas's parliamentary contributions were on business issues.
Thomas retired at the 1880 election.
He died in 1885 aged 75.
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