Thomas Gill (1788–1861)

{{Short description|British Whig politician and industrialist}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Plymouth

|term_start = 1 July 1841

|term_end = 29 July 1847

|predecessor = John Collier
Thomas Bewes

|successor = Hugh Fortescue
Roundell Palmer

|alongside = Hugh Fortescue

|birth_date = 1788

|birth_place = Tavistock, Devon, England

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|death_place = Tavistock, Devon, England

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Thomas Gill (1788 – 20 October 1861){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "P" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=27 November 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127170117/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|archivedate=27 November 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=27 October 2018 }} was a British Whig politician and industrialist.{{cite book

|last=Stooks Smith

|first=Henry.

|editor=Craig, F. W. S.

|title=The Parliaments of England

|origyear=1844-1850

|edition=2nd

|year=1973

|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services

|location=Chichester

|isbn=0-900178-13-2

|pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/73 73–75]

|url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/73

}}{{cite news |title=General Election |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18410702/004/0003 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=Morning Post |date=2 July 1841 |pages=3–4 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}{{cite web |title=Thomas Gill |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Gill |website=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History |accessdate=27 November 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127170548/https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Gill |archivedate=27 November 2018 |pages=24 November 2013 |url-status=live}}

Born in 1788 in Tavistock, Devon, Gill founded the Milbay Soaps Works in 1818 and, at some point, worked in the Tavistock Iron Works. He was also chairman of the South Devon Railway Company.

Gill was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Plymouth at the 1841 general election but stepped down at the next election in 1847.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=240}}