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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, 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 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]
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 ...
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 ...
She was the daughter of Thomas Burgh and Anne Downes, daughter of Dive Downes, Bishop of Cork and Ross, and his fourth wife Lady Catherine Fitzgerald. On 14 December 1764, she married the politician John Foster. On 5 June 1790, she was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baroness Oriel in her own right. [1]
One of ten children, her siblings include Anne, wife of Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell; Margery, who married Sir Marmaduke Constable; Joan, a nun; Elizabeth Fitzhugh (grandmother to Queen Catherine Parr), who married Sir William Parr and then Sir Nicholas Vaux; and Richard, 6th Baron FitzHugh who married Hon. Elizabeth Burgh, daughter of Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh; their son, George ...
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.