Constituency : Huntingdon 1885-6
Thomas scored a surprise triumph with a first ever Liberal victory in Huntingdon.
Thomas was the son of a local coal merchant. He was educated privately. He was a member of the Reform Club and then the National Liberal Club. He was either a Baptist or Congregationalist.
Thomas wanted the Irish Poor Law Guardians Bill of 1886 extended to England as it was "monstrous to prevent the labourers from having the right of representation on Boards of Guardians merely because they did not pay the rates directly".
Thomas was defeated in 1886.
He died in 1939 aged 89.
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