Charles Thomas-Stanford

Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford, 1st Baronet (3 April 1858 – 7 March 1932), born Charles Thomas, was a British Conservative Party politician from Brighton. He sat in the House of Commons from 1914 to 1922.

Early life and family

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 BA degree in 1881. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1882,

Thomas-Stanford was elected as a member of parliament (MP) for Brighton in June 1914 at an unopposed by-election following the resignation of the Conservative MP John Gordon. He was re-elected in 1918 as a Coalition Conservative (i.e. a supporter of the coalition government led by the Liberal David Lloyd George), and stood down from Parliament at the 1922 general election. and the title was conferred on 8 May 1929.

He died aged 73 on 7 March 1932 at his home Preston Manor, Brighton, coronet = crest = 1st, on a wreath of the colours, a buffalo's head caboshed Sable within a chain in arch Or, the head charged, for distinction, with a cross crosslet also Or (Stanford); 2nd, on a wreath of the colours, a demi-unicorn Gules, charged on the body with two chevronels, as in the arms, and supporting with the sinister forepaw a plate charged with a fleur-de-lys of the First. motto = Aequus in arduis supporters =