Thomas Bain

Thomas Bain (December 14, 1834 – January 18, 1915) was a Canadian parliamentarian.

Bain was born in Scotland, the son of Walter Bain, and migrated to Canada with his family when he was three years old. They settled on a bush farm in Wentworth County near Hamilton, Ontario.

He was elected to the County Council in the 1860s and became Warden. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1872 federal election as a Liberal. He was re-elected on six subsequent occasions, serving as an MP for 28 years before retiring in 1900. In the House, he usually spoke on agricultural issues, and became Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and Colonization in 1896.

In 1874, he married Helen Weir.

When the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, James David Edgar, died unexpectedly in July 1899, Wilfrid Laurier asked Bain to become the new Speaker for the remainder of Egar's term.

Bain served as Speaker until the House was dissolved for the 1900 election in which he did not run.

Thomas Bain (disambiguation)

Thomas Bain was a Canadian politician.

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Thomas Bain (Orange)

Thomas R. W. Bain was born in London in 1964. He is known for intelligence work done behind the Iron Curtain in 1988 under the pseudonym "Orange". He is currently Dean (education) at the International School of Project Management in New Delhi, India.

Early life

Bain lived in Kingston upon Thames and near Southampton while attending prep school at Highfield School (Liphook, Hampshire). He suffered from Dyslexia, and made slow progress in the educational system. He was put back two full years in study when he moved to France, where his dyslexia was disregarded in a small town school in the South-West of France (Monsempron-Libos). Later in the suburbs of Paris he was put into the Saint Erambert School (which had collaborated with the Germans during the WWII) "to discipline him". He revolted and was expelled for listening to and discussing AC/DC. In 1982 he moved to Spain, and took up Hispanic Studies in a small private college in Salamanca. Upon return to France he passed the exams to get into the state educational system, a school then called Lyceé Claude Debussy, now called Lyceé Jeanne d'Albret. He excelled and was made Délégué. He qualified for the Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles. He accomplished his Khâgne in the Lyceé Jules Ferry, one of the topmost (Place Clichy, Paris). At the same time he accomplished his BA Humanities in the radical Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. Bain then migrated to Switzerland, where he accomplished his M. Phil in European Studies at the Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européennes (IUEE), the institut was founded by Denis de Rougemont, and had a federalist outlook. Later on he attended the doctoral seminars of Wlad Godzich in the University of Geneva.