Facts: - death place: collingwood , ontario - parliament: canadian canadian - successor: james bowman peter macdonald - constituency mp: huron north huron east - death date: 15 april 1916 - predecessor: joseph whitehead district created in 1882 - term end: 1882 1887 - term start: 1872 1882 - birth date: 08 march 1833 - name: thomas farrow - image: thomas farrow.jpg - birth place: mumby , lincoln county , england Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thomas farrow .
A:
thomas farrow -lrb- march 8 , 1833 -- april 15 , 1916 -rrb- was a canadian merchant and political figure .he represented huron north in the canadian house of commons as a liberal conservative from 1872 to 1882 and huron east as a conservative member from 1882 to 1887 .he was born in mumby , lincoln county , england , the son of martin farrow , was educated there and came to canada west in 1849 .in 1858 , he married mary mcdonald .he served as superintendent of schools for wawanosh , morris and turnberry townships in huron county for several years .farrow was defeated by peter macdonald in his bid for reelection in 1887 .he died in collingwood at the age of 83 .