Sunday, 15 January 2017

1441 John Thomas




Constituency : Gower  1900-06

John  took  over  from  David  Randell  at  Gower. He  defeated  an  Independent  Labour  candidate  by  423  votes  with  the  help  of  a  local  miners  leader  John  Williams..

John  was  educated  at  Rhydowen  and  Milford  Grammar  School. He  was  a  solicitor , a  mine  owner  and  a  tinplate  manufacturer. He  was  Mayor  of  Swansea  in  1897-98. He  was  a  Nonconformist.

John  stood  down  in  1906

He  died  in  1935  aged  84.


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