Background
The son of David Collet Thomas, from Hove, he was educated at the Highgate School and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1881.
The son of David Collet Thomas, from Hove, he was educated at the Highgate School and at Oriel College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1881.
Highgate School; Oriel College.
He sat in the House of Commons from 1914 to 1922. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1882, but did not practice. In the same year he changed his name by royal licence to Thomas-Stanford.
Thomas-Stanford became a Justice of the Peace (Justice of the Peace) for Brighton, and served as Mayor of Brighton in 1910-1911 and 1912-1914, becoming an alderman by 1914.
He was re-elected in 1918 as a Coalition Conservative (ie a supporter of the coalition government led by the Liberal David Lloyd George), and stood down from Parliament at the 1922 general election. In 1922 he donated Lewes Castle to the Sussex Archaeological Society, of which he was a long-serving chairman.
Thomas-Stanford was made a baronet on the 1929 New Year Honours and the title was conferred on 8 May 1929. He died aged 73 on 7 March 1932 at his home Preston Manor, Brighton, which was bequeathed to Brighton Corporation.
30th United Kingdom Parliament. 31st United Kingdom Parliament]
Thomas-Stanford was elected as a Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Brighton in June 1914 at an unopposed by-election following the resignation of the Conservative Member of Parliament John Gordon.