John Pennington Thomasson
1841–1904
Master spinner, landowner, and politician. MP for Bolton, 1880–5.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1871 (The National Archives: Public Record Office RG10/3928/71/18)
ODNB s.v. Lucas, Margaret Bright
Stenton 1976
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Stenton, Michael. 1976. Who’s who of British members of Parliament, 1832–1885. Volume 1 of Who’s who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod’s Parliamentary companion and other sources. Brighton: Harvester Press.