Wyndham Partridge Thomas
Wyndham Partridge Thomas ( -1923), director of Richard Thomas and Co
son of Richard Thomas
1923 Obituary [1]
WYNDHAM PARTRIDGE THOMAS died in London on October 24, 1923.
He was a director of Richard Thomas & Co., Ltd., iron, steel, and tinplate manufacturers, of London and South Wales. He was a son of the late Mr. Richard Thomas, the founder of the business.
As managing director of the Redbourn Hill Iron and Coal Co., a subsidiary company of Richard Thomas & Co., he devoted himself energetically to the development of that undertaking. He held the managing directorship during the critical years of the war, and was responsible at the time when important constructional work was undertaken, involving an outlay of nearly three million pounds.
During the earlier part of the war he served with distinction as a captain in the Queen's Regiment.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1917.