Terence Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield
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Terence James Thomas, Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, Template:Postnominals (19 October 1937 – 1 July 2018) was a British politician and banker, member of the Labour and Co-operative parties.
Career
Thomas was a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Carmarthen, where his father (William Emrys Thomas 1911–1993) was a transport manager and his mother (Mildred Evelyn née James) ran a greengrocery. He did his national service in the army, serving at Shrapnel Barracks in Woolwich, south east London. He then joined the National Provincial Bank.<ref name="MEN-2010">Template:Cite news</ref>
Thomas joined the Co-operative Bank in 1973 as marketing manager.<ref name="thenews"/> He served as chief executive of the bank for nine years, before retiring in the late 1990s.<ref name="thenews">Template:Cite news</ref> He suffered a stroke in 1999; in his 2010 autobiography, he says this was caused by a hole in the heart of which he had been unaware.<ref name="MEN-2010" />
He was Chairman of the East Manchester Partnership (1990–1996) and founding Chairman of the North West Partnership. Thomas later served as Chair of Capita Group (1997–98). He was a member of the House of Lords Monetary Policy & European Affairs Select Committees. He is a member of the Regional Policy Forum, President of the Society for Co-operative Studies, Honorary President of the North West Co-operative and Mutual Council and Life President of the North West Business Leadership Team.Template:Citation needed
He died on 1 July 2018 at the age of 80.<ref>Tributes paid to ethical banking giant Lord Terry Thomas</ref>
Honours
Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 Birthday Honours,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> he was created a life peer as Baron Thomas of Macclesfield, of Prestbury in the County of Cheshire on 5 November 1997.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He sat in the House of Lords until 18 May 2016, at which point he ceased to be a member pursuant to section 2 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014, having failed to attend during the whole of the 2015-16 session without being on leave of absence.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>