Tuesday, 16 January 2018
1796 Thomas Wing
Constituency : Grimsby 1910, Houghton-le-Spring 1913-18
Thomas unseated the Liberal Unionist defector George Doughty, helped by the absence of a Labour candidate.
Thomas was born in Hull and started work as an errand boy.
Thomas went on a fishing expedition to the Faroes with some of his constituents in 1910.
Doughty reversed the result in December 1910.
In 1913, Thomas returned to Parliament at the Houghton-le-Spring by-election replacing the deceased Robert Cameron.
In 1918, the coupon was awarded to an NDP candidate. Thomas came second to the victorious Labour candidate.
In 1920, Thomas contested the Dartford by-election. He came a very distant second to Labour in a seat previously held by a Coalition Liberal.
In 1922, Thomas contested Spennymoor, a seat previously held by Liberal Samuel Galbraith.
Thomas went back to Grimsby in 1924 but came a poor third. He returned to Houghton-le-Spring in 1929 and came a distant second.
He died in 1935 aged 81.
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