Thomas Knowles (30 May 1824 – 3 December 1883) was an English businessman and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1883.
According to his obituary, he began work at the age of nine, working up to fifteen hours a day for wages of half-a-crown a week, from which his father allowed him threepence a week pocket money.
[1] Knowles was in business in Lancashire with interests in coal mining, cotton spinning and bleaching.
He was also a director of the London and North Western Railway, and of the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company.
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