Thomas Missing d.1788
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Thomas MISSING d.1788
Biographical Note
Born sometime after 1710, son of Thomas Missing of Stubbington, Hampshire, a Portsmouth merchant. He was MP for Poole 1741-47, and held various local administrative offices; he is noted as having built a workhouse at Poole in 1739.
Books
Missing used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 20708); the extent and disposition of his library are not known. His brief will, whose scrappy nature called for separate testimony when proved, has no mention of books.
Sources
- Will of Thomas Missing, the National Archives PROB 11/1172/125.
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.