About Thomas Boord
Lived 1838 – 1912 (aged 73). Thomas Boord was a British politician.
Sir Thomas William Boord, 1st Baronet, VD JP FSA (14 July 1838 – 2 May 1912) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Boord was the son of Joseph Boord and his wife Mary Ann (née Newstead). He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Greenwich a by-election in August 1873, and held the seat until he stood down at the 1895 general election. Apart from his political career he was a Captain the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, a justice of the peace and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. On 18 February 1896 he was created a baronet, of Wakehurst Place in the County of Sussex.
Boord married Margaret, daughter of Thomas George Mackinlay, in 1861. They had three sons and two daughters.
He died on 2 May 1912, aged 73, and was buried in a family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son William.
Lady Boord died on 22 December 1918.
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British politician (1838–1912)
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Thomas Boord was born on 14 July 1838.
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