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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 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 the son of the military engineer and architect Colonel Thomas Burgh MP and Mary Smyth. He represented Naas as a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons between 1731 and his death in 1759. [1] His successor as MP was his younger brother, Richard Burgh.
However, his son, Thomas Burgh (c.1488–1550), was summoned to Parliament in 1529 and this was deemed as the creation of the barony. In this barony, Thomas, 3rd Baron Burgh was Lord Deputy of Ireland (1597), and his younger brother, Sir John Burgh (d. 1594), was a distinguished soldier and sailor. Robert, 6th Baron Burgh died as a young child ...
Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet; Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Connell; Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) Thomas Burgh (1754–1832) Thomas Burgh (died 1759) Thomas Burgh (Lanesborough MP) Thomas Burgh of Gainsborough; Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh; Thomas de Burgh, Castellan of Norwich; Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) Thomas mac Edmond Albanach ...
Thomas Burgh (died 1810) was an Irish politician who was elected to the Irish House of Commons to represent Kilbeggan (1790–98), Clogher (1798–1800) and Fore (1800). [ 1 ] Career
January 29 – Thomas Flynn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh; August 6 – Sir Thomas Vesey, 1st Baronet, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory (b. 1668?) October 3 – Thomas Brodrick, politician (b. 1654) December 4 – Edward Southwell, politician (b. 1671) December 18 – Colonel Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland (b. 1670)
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.