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Thomas Foley (other)
Thomas Foley or Tom Foley may refer to: Political figures * Thomas Foley (Australian politician) (1853–1920), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Thomas C. Foley (born 1952), American diplomat * Thomas F. "Big Tom" Foley (1852–1925), American Tammany Hall politician and saloon keeper in New York City * Tom Foley (Australian politician) (1886–1973), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Tom Foley (1929–2013), American Congressman and Speaker of the House * Tom Foley (Pennsylvania politician) (born 1953), politician from Pennsylvania who became President of Mount Aloysius College Others * Thomas Foley (Royal Navy officer) (1757–1833), British admiral * Thomas Patrick Roger Foley (1822–1879), American religious leader * Thomas Foley, journalist and friend of Ian Holbourn, who married RMS ''Lusitania'' survivor Avis Dolphin * Tom Foley (infielder) (born 1959), American baseball player and coach * Tom Foley (outfielder) (1847–1896), American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (Australian Politician)
Thomas Foley (14 June 1853 - 16 September 1920) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Foley was born in Swansea, Wales, the son of John Foley and his wife Elizabeth (née Edwards) and was educated at the British Admiralty School. He came to Townsville with his wife and four children in 1883 at a time when vacant houses in the area were scarce and the family had to make do with living in a tent in an area of Townsville known as Canvastown. They eventually moved to a house in Macrossan Street where he lived for the rest of his life. He secured work at first with the Townsville City Council and later worked on some of the early brick buildings of the town including the municipal buildings and St James' Cathedral, Townsville, St James' Cathedral. He later worked on the wharves of Townsville as a stevedore. Foley married he married Mary Harris (died 1931) in Swansea in 1873 and together had seven sons and four daughters. After being seriously ill with heart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (died 1677)
Thomas Foley (1617–1677) was an English ironmaster and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1677. Life Foley was the eldest son of Richard Foley and his second wife Alice Brindley, herself the daughter of Sir William Brindley of Willenhall. His father was a prominent Midlands ironmaster of Stourbridge. Foley took over his father's business and made great profits from it in the 1650s and 1660s, which he used to buy estates. He was appointed High Sheriff of Worcestershire for 1656–57. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Worcestershire in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Bewdley in 1660 for the Convention Parliament. In 1673 he was elected MP for Bewdley in a by-election to the Cavalier Parliament. Foley built Witley Court. In the late 1660s, he founded a bluecoat school at Stourbridge known as Old Swinford Hospital, which he endowed in his will. Foley married Anne Browne, daughter of John Browne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley
Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley of Kidderminster DL (11 December 1808 – 20 November 1869), was a British peer and Liberal politician. He held office in every Whig/ Liberal government between 1833 and 1869. Family and estate Foley was the son of Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley, and Lady Lucy Anne FitzGerald. James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, and Emily FitzGerald, Duchess of Leinster, were his maternal great-grandparents. Lord Foley married Lady Mary Charlotte Howard, daughter of Henry Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, in 1849. He died in November 1869, aged 60, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Henry Foley. Lady Foley died in 1897. In 1837, he sold Witley Court and the heavily encumbered Great Witley estate to trustees of Lord Ward for £890,000. No longer having to pay interest on the debts charged on that estate, he was left considerably better off, as a result of the sale. Political career He was elected to the House of Commons for Worcestershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley
Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley PC, DL (22 December 1780 – 16 April 1833), was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners under Lord Grey between 1830 and 1833. Background Foley was the son of Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley, and Henrietta Stanhope. Political career Foley succeeded as third Baron Foley on the death of his father in 1793 and was able to take his seat in the House of Lords on his 21st birthday in 1801. When the Whigs came to power under Lord Grey in 1830, Foley was appointed Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, a post he held until his early death in 1833. In 1830 he was admitted to the Privy Council. Apart from his political career he was also Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire between 1831 and 1833 and Master of the Quorn Hunt from 1805 to 1806. Family Lord Foley married Lady Cecilia Olivia Geraldine FitzGerald (3 March 1786 – London, 27 July 1863), daughter of William Fitz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1742–1793)
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (24 June 1742 – 2 July 1793) of Witley Court in Worcestershire, was a British peer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1777 when he was raised to the peerage. Early life Foley was the eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716–1777), Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, and was born on 24 June 1742. He was educated at Westminster School from 1753 and matriculated at Magdelen College, Oxford, in 1759. Political career Foley was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Herefordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Herefordshire at a by-election on 18 May 1767 and retained his seat at the 1768 British general election, 1768 general election. At the 1774 British general election, 1774 general election he was returned as MP for the family borough of Droitwich (UK Parliament constituency), Droitwich until he succeeded to his father's peerage in 1777. Foley was a close friend of Charles James Fox, and was a gambler. Mary Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716–1777)
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (8 August 1716 – 18 November 1777), was a British landowner and politician. Foley was the son of Thomas Foley MP and his wife Hester (née Andrews) and was educated at Westminster School (1724–732) and Trinity College, Cambridge (from 1732). The Foley family descended from the prominent ironmaster Thomas Foley. He succeeded his father in 1749, inheriting the Stoke Edith estate in Herefordshire. Foley was also the cousin, namesake and heir of Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (a title which became extinct on the latter's death in 1766), thus also inheriting Witley Court and the extensive Great Witley estate. This included ironworks at Wilden and Shelsley Walsh, which were leased about at the end of his life. He was elected to the House of Commons for Droitwich in 1741, a constituency he represented until 1746 and again from 1754 to 1768, followed by election to represent Herefordshire between 1768 and 1776. The latter year the title previous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (died 1749)
Thomas Foley (c. 1695 – 3 April 1749), of Stoke Edith, Herefordshire was a British landowner and Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Thomas Foley (auditor of the imprests) and inherited the latter's estates on his death in 1737. He represented Hereford in Parliament from 1734 to 1741, and Herefordshire from 1742 to 1747. He continued the family interest in ironmaking in the Forest of Dean, initially in partnership with his father. However, in his time leases were not renewed as they expired, and the business declined to being a shadow of what it once had been. He married five times. # Hester Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and Elizabeth Young. Children: #* Martin Andrew Foley #* Thomas Foley, created first Baron Foley of the second creation in 1776 # Mary Warter, daughter of John Warter. Children: #* Robert Foley, Dean of Worcester #* Sarah Foley # Elizabeth Wolstenholme, daughter of Henry Wolstenholme. Child: #* Paul Jermyn Foley # Elizabeth Unett, da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (auditor Of The Imprests)
Thomas Foley (c. 1670 – 10 December 1737), of Stoke Edith Court, Herefordshire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1691 and 1737. He held the sinecure office of auditor of the imprests. Foley was the eldest son of Paul Foley, House of Commons of England and ironmaster, and succeeded to his estates around Stoke Edith, Herefordshire on his father's death in 1699. Foley was Member of Parliament for Weobley from 1691 to 1698 and from 1699 to 1700. He was then MP for Hereford from 1701 to 1722. He was subsequently MP for Stafford from 1722 to 1727 and again from 1734 until his death. Throughout this period, he was the leading ironmaster in the Forest of Dean. Initially this business was managed by John Wheeler and then by William Rea, until Rea was sacked in 1725. From that time the number of ironworks operated by his business, latterly without outside partners gradually declined. Foley and his wife Anne, da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766)
Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (1703 – 8 January 1766), was the eldest son of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673–1733), Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley, and inherited the vast Great Witley estate on his father's death in 1733, including ironworks at Wilden Ironworks, Wilden and Shelsley Walsh. His father had dreamed of rebuilding the Great Witley#Church of St. Michael's and All Angels, parish church, close to the family mansion of Witley Court, but died before doing so. This was undertaken by his widow Mary and son, and completed in 1735. The building was designed by James Gibbs. It was transformed in 1747, when Lord Foley bought decorative features of the chapel at Cannons (house), Cannons, James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, Lord Chandos' palace at Edgware. He then employed mould-makers to reproduce its plasterwork, making the church one of the finest baroque churches in Britain. Unlike his father and three younger brothers, Lord Foley did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673–1733)
Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley FRS (8 November 1673 – 22 January 1733), of Witley Court, Great Witley, Worcestershire, was an English landowner, ironmaster and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1694 until 1712, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Foley as one of Harley's Dozen. Foley was the eldest son of Thomas Foley and inherited the Great Witley estate on his father's death. His younger brothers were Edward Foley and Richard Foley. He was educated at Sheriffhales academy under John Woodhouse in 1689 and then for some years at Utrecht. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn on 30 May 1695. Foley was returned as Member of Parliament for Stafford at a by election on 21 November 1694 followed up by an unopposed return at the 1695 English general election. He was a Commissioner for taking subscriptions to the land bank in 1696. He held the seat at Stafford until 1712 when he was raised to the peerage, as one of 12 peers created on the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Foley (died 1701)
Thomas Foley (c. 1641 — 1 February 1701) was the eldest son of the ironmaster Thomas Foley. He succeeded his father to the Great Witley estate, including Witley Court, in 1677. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, being admitted in 1657 aged 16, graduating B.A. 1660, and was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1657. He was appointed High Sheriff of Worcestershire for 1673–74. He served as a member of Parliament for Worcestershire from 1679 to 1685; again from 1689 to 1698 and then in 1699 and 1701 for Droitwich. He was an active member. Like several members of his family, he was concerned in the iron industry, but only at Tintern. He married Elizabeth Ashe, daughter of Edward Ashe of Heytesbury, Wiltshire; they had four sons and four daughters: * Thomas Foley (1673–1733), who was created Baron Foley of Kidderminster in 1712. * Edward Foley (1676–1747), twice MP for Droitwich * Richard Foley (1681–1732), MP for Droitwich in 1711–1732 * John Foley (drowned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Foley (racehorse Trainer)
Thomas C. Foley (1946 – 24 February 2021) was an Irish racehorse trainer. Career Based at Bagenalstown, County Carlow, Foley switched from farming to training after buying an Irish draught horse, later building his own stables. His first winner was at Tramore in January 1988 when Rua Batric won a handicap hurdle at 6–1. He was involved in the training of Danoli, a horse that became popular during the 1990s and earned the nickname "the People's Champion". In 1994, the Foley-trained Danoli won the Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival, while further success followed with victory at the Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown in 1997. He played once as a half-back at minor Minor may refer to: * Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activities. ** A person who has not reached the age of majority * Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education Music theory *Minor chord ** Barb ... level for the Carlow county football tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
