Person
Rees Goring Thomas
- Slug
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- Alternative names
- Esq.
- Gender
- Assigned male at birth
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Ethnicity
- White
- Languages
- English
- Occupations
- Unknown
Born in 1801, Rees Goring Thomas was a promoter for ‘The Society of National Schools’, which aimed to build schools in every parish in Great Britain. Having been lent £20,000 by his father in law, William Esdaile, he became a partner in Sir James Esdaile & Co., and as such was awarded £4121 and 19s in compensation for the Hazelymph Estate in Jamaica.