Charles Thomas-Stanford
Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford, 1st Baronet (3 April 1858 – 7 March 1932),[1] born Charles Thomas, was a British Conservative Party politician from Brighton. He sat in the House of Commons from 1914 to 1922.
Early life and family
The son of David Collet Thomas, from Hove,[2] he was educated at the Highgate School and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. degree in 1881.[3] He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1882,[2] but did not practice.[3]
In 1897 he married Ellen Stanford, the daughter and heiress of William Stanford of Preston Park, Sussex, and widow of Vere Benett-Stanford, the former MP for Shaftesbury. In the same year he changed his name by royal licence to Thomas-Stanford.[2]
Career
Thomas-Stanford became a Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for Brighton, and served as Mayor of Brighton in 1910–11 and 1912–14,[2] becoming an alderman by 1914.[4]
Thomas-Stanford was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Brighton[5] in June 1914[6] at an unopposed by-election following the resignation of the Conservative MP John Gordon.[5][7] He was re-elected in 1918[8] as a Coalition Conservative[9] (i.e. a supporter of the coalition government led by the Liberal David Lloyd George), and stood down from Parliament at the 1922 general election.[9]
In 1922 he donated Lewes Castle to the Sussex Archaeological Society, of which he was a long-serving chairman.[3]
Thomas-Stanford was made a baronet on the 1929 New Year Honours[10] and the title was conferred on 8 May 1929.[11]
He died aged 73 on 7 March 1932 at his home Preston Manor, Brighton,[3] which was bequeathed to Brighton Corporation.
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "B" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28845. p. 5068. 30 June 1914. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 31147. p. 1356. 28 January 1919. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
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- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33493. p. 3124. 10 May 1929. Retrieved 13 October 2010.
External links
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- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Charles Thomas-Stanford
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Brighton 1914 – 1922 With: George Tryon |
Succeeded by Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson George Tryon |
| Baronetage of the United Kingdom | ||
| New creation | Baronet (of Brighton) 1929–1932 |
Extinct |
- Accuracy disputes from March 2012
- Articles lacking reliable references from March 2012
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- 1858 births
- 1932 deaths
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1910–18
- UK MPs 1918–22
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- People from Brighton
- Councillors in East Sussex
- Mayors of places in East Sussex
- Members of the Inner Temple
- People educated at Highgate School
- Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
