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Thomas Borer
Thomas Borer (born 1957) is a former ambassador of Switzerland. He had a role in resolving the problems created by Swiss banking secrecy laws in protecting the Nazi seizure of Jewish assets during the Holocaust, and in the use of Swiss banks as a medium for tax evasion.
Biography.
Thomas Borer was born in 1957 and studied law at the University of Basel where he obtained his doctorate summa cum laude in 1985. His thesis focused on the principle of legality and foreign affairs.
Career.
Thomas Henry Illidge
Thomas Henry Illidge (26 Sep 1799 - 1851) was an English portrait painter.
Life and work.
Illidge was born in Birmingham on 26 September 1799, belonging to a family resident near Nantwich, Cheshire. Illidge's father moved to Manchester, and, dying young, left a young family ill-provided for. Illidge was educated in Manchester, and taught drawing. He was subsequently the pupil in succession of Mather Brown and William Bradley. He initially tried landscape painting, but married early