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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.
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
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.
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.
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)
Thomas Burgh, Surveyor-General of His Majesty's Fortifications in Ireland, was one of the appointed trustees in the project and also assumed the role of architect and superintendent. [12] [11] The stone used in the building of the hospital came from a quarry situated north of the Liffey owned by Thomas Proby. The material was supplied by Proby ...