14 Facts About Thomas Nussey

Sir Thomas Willans Nussey, 1st Baronet was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician.

Thomas Nussey was the Member of Parliament for Pontefract from 1893 to 1910.

Thomas Nussey's sister Hilda was a VAD nurse during the Great War at Gledhow Hall.

Thomas Nussey was educated at Malvern College until Christmas 1882, then attended Leamington College for Boys and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

Edith Thomas Nussey died in 1934 and Sir Willans married again in 1935.

Thomas Nussey went in for the law and in 1893 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.

Thomas Nussey started to engage in political activity as soon as he came down from university and MPs did not receive salaries until 1911.

Thomas Nussey held Liberal political views and was said to have remained faithful to the ideas and policies of William Ewart Gladstone all his life.

Thomas Nussey first stood for Parliament at the 1892 general election in the Maidstone division of Kent but in June 1893 there was a by-election in the Pontefract constituency in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

The election of the sitting Liberal MP for Pontefract, Harold Reckitt at a by-election in February 1893, was declared void following an election petition and Thomas Nussey was selected to contest the seat.

Thomas Nussey won the by-election narrowly but held his seat until the December 1910 general election when he retired from the House of Commons.

In 1909, Thomas Nussey was created a baronet in the Birthday Honours list.

Thomas Nussey was a justice of the peace for the North Riding, chairman of the local bench, chairman of the North Yorkshire Quarter Sessions, chairman of the Appeals Committee and a deputy lieutenant of the North Riding.

Thomas Nussey died at his home, Sutton Howgrave, Bedale in the North Riding of Yorkshire on 12 October 1947 aged exactly 79 years.