He had a close personal and business relationship with James Frew (for whom Frewville is named) of Frew & Co.
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, a Congregationalist minister of Walworth, London, and started life as a merchant, eventually becoming a member of the London Stock Exchange.
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On 1 January 1850, it became a daily publication, and three years later the paper was bought back by Thomas's son William Kyffin Thomas as part of South Australia's first media syndicate with Anthony Forster, Edward William Andrews and Joseph Fisher.