James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
- James Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin
James Purdon Lewes Thomas, 1st Viscount Cilcennin (13 October 1903 – 13 July 1960) was a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom, and former First Lord of the Admiralty.
Thomas was elected Member of Parliament for Hereford in 1931, and rose through the ministerial ranks to become First Lord of the Admiralty (1951–1956). He left the House of Commons in 1955, and was raised to the peerage as Viscount Cilcennin, of Hereford in the County of Herefordshire. The title became extinct on his death.
External links
* [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/THOMAS1.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: THOMAS, James Purdon Lewes]
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