1652 Thomas Wiles

Constituency : Islington  South  1906-18

Thomas  took  Islington  South  from  the  Tories.

Thomas  was  educated  at  Amersham  Hall  School. He  worked  in  the  family  firm  of  grain  merchants. He  was  chairman  of  the  Corn  Exchange. He  also  had  interests  in  banking. He  became  a  Progressive  councillor  in  1900  and  became  chairman  of  the  London  Port  Authority.
He  was  a  Baptist.

In  1910  he  warned  Churchill  about  the  political  consequences  of  his  Shops  Bill  regulating  opening  hours.

Thomas  served  as  Parliamentary  private  Secretary  to  Thomas  McKinnon  Wood  at  the  Foreign  Office  from  1908-11  and  the  Treasury  from  1911-12.

Thomas  lost  his  seat  to  a  Conservative  with  the  coupon  in  1918. He  failed  to  regain  it  in  1922  due  to  Labour's  intervention. He  switched  to  Eastbourne  in  1923  but  failed  to  dislodge  the  Tory.

He  died  in  1951  aged  89.