David St John Thomas [SEP] date of birth
David St John Thomas
David St John Thomas (30 August 1929 – 19 August 2014) was an English publisher and writer who founded David & Charles.
Early life and career.
The son of writer Gilbert Thomas (1891–1978) he shared his father’s enthusiasm for railways, particularly in the running of their Bassett-Lowke model railway.
Brought up in Devon over the World War II period, his first job was as a reporter on the "Western Morning News" in Plymouth where he specialised in covering
The latter stance led to a bitter clash with the leading Protestant reformer John Bale, Bishop of Ossory. The St Lawrence family were Barons and later Earls of Howth, hence his alternative name Thomas Howth.
Background.
He was a younger son of Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth. His date of birth and his mother's identity are unclear. His brother Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth, their father's son by his first wife, Alice White, was born around 1460; but Thomas, who