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Latest news in Yorkshire: Published February 23, 2019 03:50:14 PM
31st March 1917 Obituory of Mr Harold Thomas.
“We regret to announce the death of Mr Harold Thomas, of The Cottage,
Derwent, and Broomgrove Lodge, Sheffield, Recorder of Hull, which took
place on Monday at Derwent.
Mr Thomas was in his 71st year. Called to the Bar in 1874, it was not
long before Mr Thomas made for himself a prominent position in the
various courts in Yorkshire, and particularly at the West Riding Assizes
at Leeds.
He was for a long period one of the Treasury counsel on the
North-Eastern circuit and was at various times engaged in some of the
most important trials and civil actions heard by the judges at Leeds.
In 1901 Mr Thomas was appointed as the first Recorder of Rotherham.
He also filled the office of Deputy-Recorder at Leeds and Sheffield, and
on may occasions occupied the position of deputy County Court judge at
Hull and Sheffield. In 1904 he was appointed the Recorder of Hull, and
that position he held up to the time of his death.
He occupied for many years chambers in Bank-street, Sheffield, and
devoted a large amount of his spare time to public work in this city,
where he was held in the highest esteem. In Holmfirth and the Colne
Valley divisions Mr Thomas contested seats for the Conservative Party,
but on each occasion he was defeated, and the valuable work which he
would have done in Parliament was lost to those constituencies.
Mr Thomas was a member of the Board of Management of the Deakin
Institution, and a trustee of the Withers Pension Fund. During the last
few years Mt Thomas had not taken quite so active a part in local
affairs, but his interests in the city and its welfare was marked up to
the end. – “Sheffield Telegraph
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Broomgrove Lodge
The turn of the century brings a new hope – and a change in ownership –
to the house. Emma Bingham sadly died in the spring last, and the new
owners – Kate and Harold Thomas – have taken up residence. Mr. Thomas is
a Sheffield born barrister, and his wife, Kate (nee ALGAR) is the
daughter of a Sheffield printer.
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Mr Harold Thomas
Born: c1847 in Sheffield
Residences: Rossall School, Fleetwood [pupil] (1861 – census)
53 Burlington Road, Paddington [lodger] (1871 – census)
Endcliffe Terrace, Fulwood Road, Sheffield (1880-1887 – Electoral
Registers)
315 Fulwood Road, Sheffield [lodger – with future wife – Kate’s –
family] (1881 – census)
60 Marlborough Road, Sheffield (1888-1901 – Electoral Registers)
55 Westgate (Bull Hotel), Wakefield [visitor] (1891 – census)
Married: Kate Gemina (Geminus) Algar on September 6th 1896 in Crookes,
Sheffield
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Kate Geminus (Gemina) Thomas (nee Algar)
Born: 1855 in Sheffield
Parents: Thomas Stannard Algar (d. 1888 – printer) and Elizabeth White
Perry (d.1860)
Eliza Algar West (m.1863 – step mother)
Siblings: Mary Louise Algar (1850?)
Ellen Leda Algar (1851?)
Anne Geminus Algar (1855)
Frederick William Algar (1858?)
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