1332 Thomas Nussey

Constituency : Pontefract  1893-1910

Thomas  held  on  to  Pontefract  for  the  Liberals  after  Harold  Reckitt's  election  had  been  voided  on  petition  and  he  himself  barred  from  standing  again. Thomas  won  by  32  votes. He  was  the  last  Liberal  to  be  elected  while  Gladstone  was  leader.

Thomas  was  the  son  of  a  Yorkshire  wool  manufacturer. he  was  educated  at  Leamington  College  and  Cambridge. Thomas  became  a  barrister  but  won  the  by-election  almost  immediately  afterwards. He  stood  for  Maidstone  in  1892.

In  a  debate  on  road  safety  Thomas  called  for  legislation  To  "make  cars  illegal  which  ran  at  more  than  about  fifteen  or  twenty  miles  an  hour. I  hope  something  of  this  kind  would  be  done, otherwise  what  was  now  a  great  nuisance  might  become  a  great  danger".

Thomas  was  created  a  baronet  in  1909.

Thomas  stood  down  at  the  December  1910  elections. He  continued  in  public  life  as  a  magistrate.

He  died  in  1947  on  his  79th  birthday.