Constituency : Elland 1885-99
Thomas won the new seat of Elland.
Thomas was a wool-stapler, privately educated in Halifax. He was Mayor of the town from 1872 to 1874.
Thomas opposed coercion in Ireland in 1887 and criticised the government's licensing proposals in 1890.
Thomas stood down on health grounds in 1899 and retired to Oxfordshire.
He died in 1901 aged 67.
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