Thursday, 28 December 2017
1777 Sir Thomas Barclay
Constituency : Blackburn 1910
Sir Thomas took the second Blackburn seat - alongside Labour's Philip Snowden- from the Tories and in fact topped the poll.
Thomas was born in Dunfermline. He was educated at Cupar Academy and University College London. He worked as a journalist for The Times from their Paris office before becoming a barrister. He originally aligned himself with the Liberal Unionists. He was deputy chairman of the International law Association and worked in France as chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce. He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on ten occasions between 1905 and 1928.
Thomas did not find parliamentary life congenial. His only contribution was an argument against tariff reform. He stood don in December.
Thomas published a number of works on international law and economics.
He died in 1941 aged 87.
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