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Colonel Thomas de Burgh (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR; 1670 – 18 December 1730), always named in his lifetime as Thomas Burgh, was an Anglo-Irish military engineer, architect, and Member of the Parliament of Ireland who served as Surveyor General of Ireland (1700–1730) and designed a number of the large public buildings of Dublin including the old Custom House (1704–6), Trinity ...
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh of Gainsborough, KG [1] (/ ˈ b ʌr ə / BURR-ə; c. 1558 – 14 October 1597), de jure 7th Baron Strabolgi and 9th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was the son of William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and Elizabeth Blount, former mistress of King Henry VIII. [1]
Thomas Burgh may refer to: Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough (c. 1431–1496), English peer and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1460; Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh (c. 1488–1550), English peer and 5th Baron Strabolgi; Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh (c. 1558–1597), English peer, 7th Baron Strabolgi, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597
Burgh was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [1] He was the son of William Burgh of Bert House, near Athy, County Kildare, Comptroller and Auditor General, and Margaret Parnell, sister of the High Court judge John Parnell and the poet and preacher Thomas Parnell. His uncle, John, was an ancestor of the leading statesman Charles Stewart Parnell.
Thomas was Esquire of the Body to King Edward IV of England and by Christmas 1462, Thomas was created a Knight by the King and a Privy Councillor.Sir Thomas slowly became the King's chief man in Lincolnshire where he held manors, land, tenements from Northumberland (from his mother's inheritance, which he shared with her sister Margaret, Baroness Grey of Codnor) through Westmorland, Yorkshire ...
Thomas Burgh, also spelt "Borough", was born about 1488 at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh (c. 1463 – 1528) and Anne Cobham, suo jure 6th Baroness Cobham, daughter of Sir Thomas Cobham, de jure 5th Baron Cobham of Sterborough and Lady Anne Stafford, a daughter of the 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Thomas John Burgh (6 May 1786 – 4 September 1845) was an Irish cleric who was Dean of Cloyne from 1823 [1] until his death on 4 September 1845. [2] Burgh was born in County Kildare and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [3] After a curacy in Letterkenny, he served incumbencies at Kilbixy and Ballinrobe. [4] He died at Naas in 1845. [5]
William Burgh, or de Burgh, was born in 1741 to Thomas Burgh of Bert (1696–1754), Member of Parliament for Lanesborough and landowner in County Kildare, Ireland, and his wife Anne Downes (1709–1801), whom he married in 1731.