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Thomas Farncomb

(1779-1865), Merchant and shipowner; Lord Mayor of London

Sitter in 2 portraits

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Key to the painting: The Lord Mayor presenting an Address of Congratulation to H.M. Louis-Philippe at Windsor Castle, by J.E. Fisher, after Jean Alaux - NPG D33210Key to the painting: The Lord Mayor presenting an Address of Congratulation to H.M. Louis-Philippe at Windsor Castle
by J.E. Fisher, after Jean Alaux
NPG D33210
Thomas Farncomb, by Joseph John Skelton, after William Edward Kilburn - NPG D47459Thomas Farncomb
by Joseph John Skelton, after William Edward Kilburn
NPG D47459

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David

10 August 2022, 19:28

In November 1830, the Maidstone Journal & Kentish Advertiser reported on the Southwark Hustings, where Thomas Farncomb was competing against wealthy brewer, Charles Calvert, to become MP for Southwark. Farncomb and his supporters set out from the George Inn, led by a band of musicians and ‘accompanied by a shouting multitude.’