LoginObituary: Thomas Philpott
Trading standards lost a gifted and popular teacher and friend in April 2019
Posted 05 July 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Updates|Inside Trading Standards|National
UPDATES: Colleagues pay tribute to Thomas Philpott, whose long career in trading standards and decades spent training future officers left a lasting legacy across the profession.
Yorkshireman Tom Philpott was born in Featherstone, which is part of West Yorkshire, but at the time of his birth it was the West Riding - and instilled in the minds of all true Yorkshiremen, it still is.
Tom trained and qualified in Pontefract in 1965 and moved on to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures in the Rotherham Office. In 1971 he moved to Headquarters of the large County Auth...
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