Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas | |
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Member of Parliament for South Monmouthshire | |
In office 13 July 1917 – 25 November 1918 | |
Preceded by | Ivor Herbert |
Succeeded by | Office Abolished |
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Born | 5 October 1853 Panteryrod, Cardiganshire, Wales |
Died | 30 January 1931 (aged 77) |
Relatives | John Aeron Thomas (brother) |
Education | Milford Haven |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
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Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas (5 October 1853 – 30 January 1931) was a Welsh physician, philanthropist, magistrate, politician and Member of Parliament.
He was born at Panteryrod, near Aberaeron, in Cardiganshire, the son of Lewis Thomas; his older brother John Aeron Thomas, a solicitor and businessman, was also a Member of Parliament. [1] [2] [3] He was a Welsh speaker to age 13, and was educated at Milford Haven. At the University of Edinburgh he graduated M.B. in 1876, and that year also became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. After graduation he studied at Berlin and Vienna. He became M.D. at Edinburgh in 1878, [4] and started work in Newport, Monmouthshire. [1] [2] In 1892 he founded the South Wales Argus. [5] In 1915 he donated the house at 25 Clytha Park, Newport for the treatment of tuberculous children. [6] He owned the Mansion House, Newport. [7]
Thomas was appointed High Sheriff of Cardiganshire for 1900. [8] He was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for South Monmouthshire in a 1917 by-election, but did not stand again. [2] At the time of the Newport by-election, in 1922, he was President of the local Liberal Association and was first approached to stand as Liberal candidate, but in the end William Lyndon Moore was chosen, a neutral in the conflict between Asquith Liberals and supporters of Lloyd George. [9]
In 1879 Thomas married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Hughes Richards of Newport. [1] The chemist Richard Noel Garrod-Thomas was their son. [10]
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