Thomas Cairns

Thomas Ashley Cairns JP (1854 – 3 September 1908)[1] was a British Liberal Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from the 1906 general election until his death two years later due to diabetes,[2] aged 69.

[4] Cairns was a member of the Newcastle School Board from 1892 to 1899.

[4] He was Liberal candidate for the two member Newcastle-upon-Tyne division at the 1906 General Election.

He ran in tandem with a labour candidate and together they took both seats from the Conservatives.

[5] Cairns was in favour of housing reform, social legislation and Women's suffrage.