1649 Thomas Hart-Davies

Constituency : Hackney  North  1906-10

Thomas  took  Hackney  North  from  the  Tories.

Thomas  was  a  vicar's  son  from Kent. He  was  educated  at  Marlborough  College  and  Oxford. He  joined  the  Indian  Civil  Service. He  worked  mainly  in  Bombay  as  an  educational  inspector,  land  manager  and  judge. He  supported  reform  and  was  on  the  British  Committee  of  the  Indian  National  Congress. He  stood  for  Rotherhithe  in  1900. He  had  eye  problems  which  caused  him  to  leave  the  constituency  in  1903  but  he  had  recovered  by  1905.

As  you  might  expect, most  of  Thomas's  parliamentary  contributions  were  about  India. He  was  a  poor  speaker  with  a  diffident  manner.

Thomas  was  defeated  in  January  1910.

Thomas  was  an  inveterate  world  traveller  and  did  some  Russian  translations. He  wrote  magazine  articles.

He  died  in  1920  aged  70.