| 词条 | Thomas Firbank (politician) |
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Major Sir Joseph Thomas Firbank (16 May 1850 – 7 October 1910) was a British Conservative Party politician. BiographyJoseph Thomas Firbank was born in Britain in 1850. He was one of seven children of Joseph Firbank (1819–1886), who had begun work at the age of seven in a Durham coal-mine but had become a prosperous railway contractor in South Wales and elsewhere. In 1883, he married Jane Harriette Garrett (1851–1924).[1] They had four children: Joseph Sydney (1884–1904), Arthur Annesley Ronald (1886–1926, who became celebrated as the novelist Ronald Firbank), Hubert Somerset (1887–1913, the father of the author Thomas Joseph Firbank, who wrote I Bought a Mountain, I Bought a Star and other books) and Heather (1888–1951). In 1885, Thomas Firbank's father became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire. He himself lived in South Wales, at St Julians, Newport, but also in London at Clarges Street and from 1886 at the Coopers, Chislehurst. He became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1891. At the general election in July 1885, he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hull East. He was re-elected in 1900 and knighted in 1902, but he left the Commons at the 1906 general election.[2] In Who's Who he described himself as "keen on all outdoor sports and athletics, music and objects of art."[3] He died of heart failure in Tunbridge Wells in 1910.[4] His widow died in 1924. References1. ^{{cite web|title=Sitter: Mrs Joseph Thomas Firbank née Harriette Garrett, later Lady Firbank (1851– ).|url=http://lafayette.org.uk/fir1981.html|publisher=Lafayette Negative Archive}} 2. ^{{Rayment-hc|h|4|date=March 2012}} 3. ^Cited in the Introduction to The Complete Ronald Firbank With an introduction by Anthony Powell (1961) 4. ^{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Thomas Firbank |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date= 8 October 1910|page= 11}} External links
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