About Thomas Moles
Lived 1871 – 1937 (aged 65). Thomas Moles was a British journalist and politician.
Thomas Moles (13 November 1871 – 3 February 1937) was a journalist and Ulster Unionist politician.
Life Born in Belfast in 1871, Moles was the son of Edward Moles and Margaret née Carson and was educated at the Collegiate School, Ballymena. A journalist by profession, he was Leader Writer for the Belfast Telegraph from 1909 until 1924 and managing editor for that newspaper from 1924.
Moles was an Irish representative on the British press visit to Canada in 1911. He was a member of the Secretariat to the Irish Convention from 1917 to 1918.
Moles was MP for Belfast Ormeau 1918–1922 and Belfast South at Westminster from 1922 until he retired in 1929.
He was also an MP in the Northern Ireland House of Commons from 1921 to 1929 for South Belfast and for Belfast, Ballynafeigh from 1929 to his death in 1937.
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British politician (1871-1937)
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Thomas Moles was born on 1 November 1871 in Belfast.
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Thomas Moles died on 3 February 1937.
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Thomas Moles was a journalist and politician.
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