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Thomas Stanes

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Template:Hang on Thomas Stanes is a significant business man and Philanthropist who has left a lasting legacy in India. The artcle is still under development with more to be added. It fills an exisiting dead link.

Thomas Stanes (6 January 1837–30 Jan 1905) was the sixth of nine children of James Stanes, a glass and china shipping merchant of London, and his wife Sarah Poultney Worth. After education at College House, Edmonton, London, he arrived at Madras, Tamil Nadu, India on 26 June 1855 on the MS Hindustan. He was the elder brother of the celebrated Anglo-Indian businessman Sir Robert Stanes. Both Thomas and Robert founded Stanes schools in Tamil Nadu, Robert at Coimbatore in 1862 and Thomas at Coonoor in 1875.