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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 ...
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.
Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh (c. 1558–1597), English peer, 7th Baron Strabolgi, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1597; Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) or Thomas de Burgh, Irish military engineer, architect, MP and Surveyor General of Ireland; Thomas Burgh (Lanesborough MP) (1696–1758), Anglo-Irish politician and MP; Thomas Burgh (died 1759) (1707–1759 ...
Arms of Sir Thomas Burgh, at the time of his installation as a knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh of Gainsborough, KG (/ ˈ b ʌr ə / BURR-ə; also spelt Borough; c. 1488 – 28 February 1550), de jure 5th Baron Strabolgi and 7th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was an English peer.
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 ...
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.
The chimneys of the original design were not reinstated. 3 Charlemont House, Dublin Intact 1763 Now houses the Hugh Lane Gallery. 4 College Library, Dublin: Intact 1732 The long room of Thomas Burgh's Old Library building. 5 Provost's House, Dublin: Intact 1759 Still functions as the residence of the Provost of the college. 6 Trinity College ...
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