988 Thomas Acland 2

Constituency :  East  Cornwall  1882-5, Launceston 1885-92

Thomas  took  over  from  Thomas  Agar-Robartes  who  had  become  a  peer.

Thomas  was  the  son  of  the  Devonshire  North  MP  of  the  same  name. He  was  educated  at  Eton  and  Oxford  and  became  a  barrister.

In  1886 Thomas  was  appointed  a  church  estates  commissioner  and  parliamentary  secretary  to  the  Board  of  Trade.

In  1917  Thomas  granted  a  huge  estate  on  Exmoor  to  the  recently  created  National  Trust  which  more  than  doubled  their  estates.

He  died  in 1919  aged  76.