Thomas Gill | |
Office: | Member of Parliament for Plymouth |
Term Start: | 1 July 1841 |
Term End: | 29 July 1847 |
Predecessor: | John Collier Thomas Bewes |
Successor: | Hugh Fortescue Roundell Palmer |
Alongside: | Hugh Fortescue |
Birth Date: | 1788 |
Birth Place: | Tavistock, Devon, England |
Death Place: | Tavistock, Devon, England |
Nationality: | British |
Party: | Whig |
Thomas Gill (1788 – 20 October 1861)[1] was a British Whig politician and industrialist.[2] [3] [4]
Born in 1788 in Tavistock, Devon, Gill founded the Milbay Soaps Works in 1818 and, at some point, worked in the Tavistock Iron Works. He was also chairman of the South Devon Railway Company.[4]
Gill was elected a Whig Member of Parliament for Plymouth at the 1841 general election but stepped down at the next election in 1847.[2] [5]