Thomas Perronet Thompson

(1783-1869)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thompson, T. Perronet (Thomas Perronet), 1783-1869 NRA: Thompson Thomas Perronet (1783-1869) General Colonial Governor Politician Economist DNB: Thompson, Thomas Perronet (1783-1869), army officer and politician LBT ID: ThThomp1851 VIAF ID: 77841375 LOC ID: n87860878	B/BAP: 1783-03-15 DIED: 1869-09-06
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After study at Queens' College, Cambridge he served in the Peninsular War and in India; he was MP for Hull (1835-37), and Bradford (1847-52, 1857-59). A free-trader, he published Catechism on the Corn Laws (1827).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Perronet Thompson: Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter VII. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 5