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unusual facts about Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, 1st Baronet


Thomas Frankland

Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, 1st Baronet (1780–1855), British Poor Law Commissioner and MP


Anthony Richard Blake

On 24 June 1824, he was appointed to the Royal Commission for inquiring into the nature and extent of the Instruction afforded by the several Institutions in Ireland established for the purpose of Education where he served with the other Commissioners: Thomas Frankland Lewis, John Leslie Foster, William Grant and James Glassford.

Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, 1st Baronet

Lewis chaired the commission on the Rebecca Riots, and the subsequent commission that abolished the turnpike trusts.

On 24 June 1824, Lewis was appointed to the Royal Commission for inquiring into the nature and extent of the Instruction afforded by the several Institutions in Ireland established for the purpose of Education where he served with the other Commissioners: John Leslie Foster,William Grant, James Glassford and Anthony Richard Blake.

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).


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