Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gibb Thom
DSO MC (1 August 1891 – 19 February 1941) was a British soldier, judge and politician from
Linlithgow
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Thom served with the
Gordon Highlanders
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, and was awarded the
Military Cross
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in 1917, and later that year received the
Distinguished Service Order
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for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty".
He was elected as a
Member of Parliament
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for
Dunbartonshire
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in 1926, losing the 1929 election but returning to office in 1931, where he stayed until resigning a year later.
In 1937 he was knighted as part of the New Years Honours, and was also made Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature in
Allahabad
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, a position he held until his death in 1941, aged 49.
[''Indian Annual Register, 1941'']
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1891 births
1941 deaths
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Knights Bachelor
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies
Recipients of the Military Cross
UK MPs 1924–1929
UK MPs 1931–1935
Gordon Highlanders officers
British Army personnel of World War I