Thomas Guy was an English businessman, statesman and renowned miser. He was born in 1643 at London and died in 1724. The son of a lighterman in Southward, he was brought up a bookseller. He dealt largely in the importation of Bibles from Holland, and afterwards contracted with Oxford for those printed at that university. From 1694 to 1707 he represented Tamworth in Parliament. By a successful speculation in the shares of the South Sea Company he realised a fortune. With his fortune he founded an almshouse at Tamworth in 1678, the Tamworth townhall in 1701. He founded Guy' s Hospital in London in 1721, and paid for the erection of wards at St Thomas' Hospital. Research Thomas Guy
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