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John Thwaites (British politician) : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Thwaites (British politician) Sir John Thwaites (24 May 1815 - 8 August 1870) was a British politician who was the first Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works and therefore the first Leader of local government in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography )〕 ==Background== Thwaites was a native of Maulds Meaburn, Westmorland where his father was a farmer.〔 He attended Reagill School. As the third son he was not expected to follow in his father's stead, and went to London in 1832 to work for Henry Bardwell, a woollen draper on Holborn Hill; in 1835, he became a partner in the business, which had a base on Oxford Street.〔 In 1842, he left to establish his own company at 18 Blackman Street in The Borough; it later moved to 61-2 Borough High Street.
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