Saturday, 13 May 2017

1556 Thomas Cairns


Constituency : Newcastle-upon-Tyne  1906-08

Thomas  took  Newcastle  back  from  the  Tories  in  tandem  with  Labour's  Walter  Hudson.

Thomas  was  a  shipowner , the  chairman  of  Cairn  Line  Shipping. He  was  a  former  Lord  Mayor  of  the  city.

He  died  in  1908  aged  54.

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