Thomas Phinn

{{Short description|British barrister and Liberal Party politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Thomas Phinn

| image =

| caption =

| office = Second Secretary to the Admiralty

| term = {{start and end dates|1855|05|22|1857|05|07|df=y}}

| predecessor = William Baillie-Hamilton

| successor = William Govett Romaine

| birth_date = Unknown date, {{circa|1814}}

| birth_place = Bath, Somerset, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1866|10|31|1814|df=y}}

| death_place = London, Middlesex, England

| party = Liberal Party

| education = Eton College; Exeter College

| occupation = Barrister

}}

Thomas Phinn, QC ({{circa|1814}} – 31 October 1866) was a British barrister and Liberal Party politician.{{cite web |last=National Portrait Gallery |title=Thomas Phinn |website=npg.org.uk |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw144423/Thomas-Phinn |access-date=18 April 2018}}

He held various positions in the Admiralty of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century.

Life

Born in Bath, Somerset, Phinn was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford. He read for the bar at the Inner Temple, being called in 1840.Boase, F., Modern English biography, 6 vols, 1892–1921

He was elected at the 1852 general election as Member of Parliament for Bath, but held that seat for only three years, until 1855.{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link=F. W. S. Craig |year=1989 |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |edition=2nd |orig-year=First published 1977 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |page=37 |isbn=0-900178-26-4}}

He was appointed Counsel to the Admiralty and Judge Advocate of the Fleet on 17 April 1854,[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16688 'Counsel 1673–1870'], Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 4: Admiralty Officials 1660–1870 (1975), pp. 78.

and continued in that office until appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty on 22 May 1855,[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16654 'Secretaries 1660–1870'], Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 4: Admiralty Officials 1660–1870 (1975), pp. 34–37. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1857.

a post which required his resignation from the House of Commons. He resigned from the Admiralty on 7 May 1857, but was re-appointed Counsel and Judge-Advocate on 12 November 1863, and held that post until his death on 31 October 1866, in London.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Will of the Late Thomas Phinn, Q.C |newspaper=The Law Journal: A Weekly Publication of Notes of Cases and Legal News |location=London |page=700 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SmEvAQAAMAAJ&q=thomas+phinn%2C+Q.C.+sister&pg=PA696 |date=21 December 1866 |access-date=17 April 2018}}{{clear}}

References

= Footnotes =

= Bibliography =

C. I. Hamilton, ed., "Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October–November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty", in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, (London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984).