George Eric THOMAS
Born
21 August 1910, Sculcoates, Hull, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
Parents
George Herbert THOMAS and Mary Elizabeth GALE
Education
1926 Art College
Occupation
Commercial Artist Designer for Stage and Screen. Included Theatre, Cinema, Ice Shows, Circuses and Exhibitions, also elegant clothes for female clients. After the arrival of TV, live spectales lost popularity. Erik moved into making prototype ‘Plastic Soldiers’ for companies who were changing over from lead.
British Union of Facists
1933 First recorded by Special Branch as being a member of the British Union of Facists. (B.U.F) 1939 Offician B.U.F comunique concerning the arrest and detention without charges of their Prospective Pariliamentary Candidate, George Eric THOMAS, under the Emergency Powers Act. Some of the first British servicemen killed at the beginning of World War II, R.A.F. crewmen on the raid on Antwerp, were Blackshirts who were not a threat to the realm.
On 1 September 1943 George was a BU speaker and prospective Parliamentary candidate for Wood Green. A suspected Gestapo agent as he had foreign business interests and European contacts. The case against him was based on visits to Germany in 1934 and 1938, contacts with the German Chamber of Commerce in London, with the Auslands Organization. There were protests about the conditions under which he had been detained. He was released on October or early November probably because the committe accepted that his contacts were innocent. He was detained again on 24 May 1940 and released after a short term which suggests that the case wasn’t serious.
Note
1936 Thought to have studied with Occultist Alistair Crowley and the Rosicrusians
Married
Olivia Marjorie Christiana BATES on 15 October 1932, Croydon Registry Office, London, England
About Olivia Marjorie Christiana BATES
Born: About 1912
Separation
11 January 1937. Olivia cited the affair with Elsbeth ROTTMAN as grounds for divorce
Married
Hermine Elsbeth Johanna ROTTMAN on 27 March 1937 at Edmonton Registry Office, London, England
About Hermine Elsbeth Johanna ROTTMAN
Born: 16 July 1912, Hamburg Germany
Occupation: 1934 Worked for a British Vacuum Cleaner and Engineering Company Ltd
Children
Michael Adolph THOMAS
De Facto
Marjorie Lavelle DRONSFIELD 1943 Oldham, Lancashire, England
Note
After Erik had been released fro internment he rented a room at Oldham Lancashire while working at a theatre. He met Marjorie there.
About Marjorie Lavelle DRONSFIELD
Parents: Jack Lavelle and Lucy Hope HAMER
Death: 29 October 2008, York Hospital, York, Yorkshire, England
Cause of Death: Carcinoma of the lung (Lung Cancer)
Buried: 10 November 2008, York Cemetery, Cemetery Road, York, Yorkshire, YO15AJ, England, Grave No. 6945 1/2 (half) C, Section 21C
Children
One
Resided
15 June 1947 at 49 Mapesbury Road, Cricklwood, Middlesex, London, England
Separated
1950, York, Yorkshire, England
Married
Barbara SMAILS on 11 April 1953, Caxton Hall, London, England
About Barbara SMAILS
Parents: Ernest SMAILS and Edna PICKUP
Children
Sharn THOMAS
Died
17 June 1990 at Meadowhall Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Buried
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England (cremated)
Michael Adolph THOMAS
Born
1932, Possibly Torquay, England
Parents
George Eric THOMAS and Heroine Elsbeth Johanna ROTTMAN
Sharn THOMAS
Born
26 March 1956, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, Englanad
Parents
George Eric THOMAS and Barbara SMAILS
Occupation
Had her own business, a letting agency – Doorknobs at 15 Neville Street Tunbridge, Wells, Kent, England
Married
Seth Daniel TRAUGUT
About Seth Daniel TRAUGUT
Born: 3 July 1933, United States America
Died: 4 February 1993 Ashurst Park Hospice, Fordcombe Road, Langton Green, Kent, England
Cause of Death: Lung Cancer
Died
3 October 2005 Main Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Cause of Death
Heart attack due to the thickening of the wall of the heart
Buried
3 October 2005, St Mary’s Church, Church Lane, Lamberhurst, Kent, England
Obituary
Printed Tunbridge Wells Press 3 October 2005. Colleagues have paid tribute to the director of a letting agents from Laberhurst who they said had the ‘personal and professional touch’. Sharn Hutt 49, the former owner and managing director of Doorknobs in Tunbridge, WElls, died of heart attack brought on by severe asthma on Monday October 3rd. No one including herself, had been aware that she had heart weakness before her death. She leaves husband John and daughter Sophie. Her death has left colleagues and clients in a state of shock and while both were trying to come to terms with the loss, staff took time to speak about her legacy. Heather Hawkey-Soar, who has been with the firm for 16 years said: ‘Sharn’s hands on style of management has, fortunately meant that she leaves well trained staff who will ensure the business continues to be run to the same high standards that she would have wished for.” Mrs Hutt founded Doorknobs in Covent Garden, London, more than 20 years ago, and 16 years later expanded to open the Tunbridge Wells office. The expansion continued to cover the East and West Sussex areas. Colleagues said that during the years her ability to offer a professional and personal approach to landlords and tenants directly led to the business becoming one of the most sucessful letting agents in the area. At a time when competition intensified rapidly from other agents, particularly from large chains, staff said her approach was ‘a breath of fresh air’ because she kept herself accessible to all people at all times. A senior member of staff speaking for the company said that the business will continue as ever and clients could rest assured the company will maintain the same service for which it was wellknown. Several members of staff have been with the company for more than ten years, some since the company first begun, and all said Mrs. Hutt’s death was a huge loss to them both professionally and personally. Colleauges thanked all the clients, contractors and associates who had been supportive with messages of condolence. They had been inundated with calls ‘which showed the high regard in which Sharn was held’. Although Mrs Hutt’s work commitments were huge she found time to qualify and act as a bereavement counsellor for Hospice in the Weald, a charity she held dear to her heart. A book of condolence is in the office in Neville Street, tunbridge Wells, should anyone wish to sign it and share any thoughts.
Evelyn M THOMAS
Born
April 1913, Sculcoates, Hull, East Riding, Yorkshire, England
Parents
George Herbert THOMAS and Mary Elizabeth GALE
Death
July 1913, Sculcoates, Hull, East Riding, Yorkshire, England