John Gibb Thom

John Gibb Thom

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gibb Thom D.S.O., M.C., LL.B. (d. February 19 1941) was a British soldier, judge and politician. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire in 1926, losing the 1929 election but returning to office in 1931, where he stayed until resigning a year later.

In 1937 he was knighted as part of the New Years Honours, and was also made Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in Allahabad, a position he held until his death in 1941. ["Indian Annual Register, 1941"]

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