:Garrod Thomas
{{Short description|Welsh politician (1853–1931)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas
| honorific-suffix = JP
| image = Abraham Garrod Thomas2.jpg
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| office = Member of Parliament for South Monmouthshire
| term_start = 13 July 1917
| term_end = 25 November 1918
| predecessor = Ivor Herbert
| successor = Office Abolished
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 5 October 1853
| birth_place = Panteryrod, Cardiganshire, Wales
| death_date = 30 January 1931 (aged 77)
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| nationality = Welsh
| education = Milford Haven
| alma_mater = University of Edinburgh
| occupation = {{Plainlist|
- Physician
- Philanthropist
- Politician
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| employer =
| known_for = {{Plainlist|
- MP for South Monmouthshire
- Founded the South Wales Argus
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| relatives = John Aeron Thomas (brother)
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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.
Life
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.Debrett's House of Commons (1918), p. 160; [https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1918londuoft#page/160/mode/2up archive.org].{{Cite journal
| pmid = 20776010
| year = 1931
| title = Sir A. Garrod Thomas, Ll.d., M.d
| journal = British Medical Journal
| volume = 1
| issue = 3658
| pages = 288
| pmc = 2313772
| doi=10.1136/bmj.1.3658.288
}}Debrett's House of Commons (1901), p. 148; [https://archive.org/stream/debrettshouseo1901londuoft#page/148/mode/2up archive.org.] 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,{{Cite journal|last=Thomas|first=Abraham Garrod|date=1878|title=On the effects of fright|url=https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/32065|language=en}} and started work in Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1892 he founded the South Wales Argus.Viscount Camrose, British Newspapers and their Controllers (1947), p. 134; [https://archive.org/stream/brtishnewspapers035281mbp#page/n183/mode/2up archive.org]. In 1915 he donated the house at 25 Clytha Park, Newport for the treatment of tuberculous children.[http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1311205/llgc-id:1311853/llgc-id:1311884/getText "Welsh Outlook" – Vol. 2, No. 2 Feb. 1915]. Welshjournals.llgc.org.uk. Retrieved on 2014-06-06. He owned the Mansion House, Newport.[http://www.welshicons.org.uk/html/mansion_house__newport.php welshicons.org.uk, "Mansion House, Newport"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010094321/http://www.welshicons.org.uk/html/mansion_house__newport.php |date=10 October 2010 }}. Welshicons.org.uk. Retrieved on 2014-06-06.
Politics
Thomas was appointed High Sheriff of Cardiganshire for 1900.{{London Gazette|issue=27171 |page=1520| date=6 March 1900}} He was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for South Monmouthshire in a 1917 by-election, but did not stand again. 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.{{cite book|author1=Chris Cook|author2=John Ramsden|title=By-Elections In British Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQGAXGB4GLkC&pg=PA24|accessdate=12 May 2012|date=1 October 1997|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85728-535-2|pages=24–5}}
Family
In 1879 Thomas married Eleanor, daughter of Richard Hughes Richards of Newport. The chemist Richard Noel Garrod-Thomas was their son.Edward Hilliard (editor), The Balliol College Register 1832–1914 (1914), p. 119; [https://archive.org/stream/balliolcollegere01balluoft#page/118/mode/2up archive.org].
References
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Category:19th-century Welsh medical doctors
Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for Welsh constituencies
Category:High sheriffs of Cardiganshire