Friday, 6 May 2016

1200 Thomas Bolitho




Constituency : St  Austell  1887-1900  ( Liberal Unionist )

Thomas  was  elected  unopposed  to  fill  the  seat  after  John  St  Aubyn  was  elevated  to  the  peerage.

Thomas  was  educated  at  Harrow. He  was  a  director  of  Barclays  Bank  and  the  Great  Western  Railway  and  owner  of  the  Consolidated  Tin  Smelting  Company. He  was  a  local  benefactor.

Thomas  was  unopposed  in  1892  and  1895. He  stood  down  in  1900.

Thomas  was  President  of  the  Institute  of  Bankers  from  1893  to  1895. He  got  married  in  Truro  Cathedral  in  1893.

Thomas  travelled  extensively,

He  died  in  1915  aged  80.


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