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{{Short description|British Whig politician and industrialist}}
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|name               = Thomas Gill
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|office             = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth]]
|term_start        = 1 July 1841
|term_end          = 29 July 1847
|predecessor       = [[John Collier (MP)|John Collier]]<br />[[Thomas Bewes]]
|successor         = [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Hugh Fortescue]]<br />[[Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne|Roundell Palmer]]
|alongside        = [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Hugh Fortescue]]
|birth_date         = 1788
|birth_place        = [[Tavistock]], [[Devon]], [[England]]
|death_date         = {{death date and age|df=yes|1861|10|20|1788}}
|death_place        = [[Tavistock]], [[Devon]], [[England]]
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|nationality        = British
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'''Thomas Gill''' (1788 – 20 October 1861)<ref name="leighrayment">{{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "P" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=27 November 2018|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127170117/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Pcommons2.htm|archivedate=27 November 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=27 October 2018 }}</ref> was a [[Great Britain|British]] [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] politician and industrialist.<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book
|last=Stooks Smith
|first=Henry.
|editor=[[F. W. S. Craig|Craig, F. W. S.]]
|title=The Parliaments of England
|origyear=1844-1850
|edition=2nd
|year=1973
|publisher=Parliamentary Research Services
|location=Chichester
|isbn=0-900178-13-2
|pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/73 73–75]
|url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/73
}}</ref><ref name="morningpost1841">{{cite news |title=General Election |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18410702/004/0003 |accessdate=25 June 2018 |work=Morning Post |date=2 July 1841 |pages=3–4 |via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref name="gracesguide">{{cite web |title=Thomas Gill |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Gill |website=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History |accessdate=27 November 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127170548/https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thomas_Gill |archivedate=27 November 2018 |pages=24 November 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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]].<ref name="gracesguide"/>
Gill was elected a Whig [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth]] at the [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841 general election]] but stepped down at the next election in 1847.<ref name="stooks-smith"/><ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|page=240}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-thomas-gill-1 | Mr Thomas Gill }}
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{{s-ttl| title  = Member of Parliament for [[Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth]]
| years  = [[1841 United Kingdom general election|1841]]–[[1847 United Kingdom general election|1847]]
|with = [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Hugh Fortescue]]
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{{s-aft| after= [[Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue|Hugh Fortescue]] |after2= [[Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne|Roundell Palmer]]
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[[Category:UK MPs 1841–1847]]
[[Category:Whig (British political party) MPs for English constituencies]]
[[Category:1788 births]]
[[Category:1861 deaths]]
[[Category:Politicians from Tavistock]]
[[Category:South Devon Railway Company]]
[[Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Plymouth]]