About Thomas Neill
Lived 1856 – 1937 (aged 80–81). Thomas Neill was a businessperson.
Sir Thomas Neill (January 1856 – 31 May 1937) was an Irish insurance executive and pioneer of National Health Insurance in the United Kingdom.
Neill was born in Cookstown, County Tyrone, the son of a land agent. He first became a railway booking clerk, and then an insurance agent in Ballymena. In 1894 he became general manager of the London, Edinburgh and Glasgow Insurance Company and joined the board of directors of the Pearl Insurance Company when it took over the former company in 1910.
He had four children, including the paediatrician Catherine Neill (1921–2006), the judge Sir Brian Neill (1923–2017) and the barrister Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen (1926–2016).
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Who was Thomas Neill?
Irish businessman (1856–1937)
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Thomas Neill was born in 1856 in Cookstown.
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Thomas Neill died in 1937.
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Thomas Neill was a businessperson.
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