Léon Émile Clément-Thomas

{{Short description|Governor of French India}}

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Clément Léon Émile Thomas was Governor General for various colonies in the Second French Colonial Empire, notably that of Senegal from 1888 to 1890{{cite web |url=http://caom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=FRDAFANCAOM_EDF024_d0e1022&fmt=tab&base=fa&root=&n=&qid=&ss=&as=&ai= |title=Exemple PLEADE - Sénégal et dépendances I à IV, VI à XX |publisher= |access-date=8 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303231036/http://caom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/sdx/pl/doc-tdm.xsp?id=FRDAFANCAOM_EDF024_d0e1022&fmt=tab&base=fa&root=&n=&qid=&ss=&as=&ai= |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} and French India from 1891 to 1896.{{cite web|url=http://gw.geneanet.org/samlap?lang=en&m=NOTES&f=Listes%3AGouverneurs_Inde_Francaise|title=Les Gouverneurs des Établissements français de l'Inde |publisher=Geneanet }} In 1893 Clément-Thomas was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Indian Empire by the Government of British India.{{cite book|last1= Shaw |first1=William Arthur |authorlink=William Arthur Shaw |title=The Knights of England: A Complete Record from the Earliest Time to the Present Day |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4xUsPyL6koC&dq=%22L%C3%A9on+%C3%89mile+Cl%C3%A9ment-Thomas%22&pg=PA408 |date=2002 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Co |isbn= 9780806304434 |page=408 }} He was the first to earn the title of connard of Senegal.