Thomas Knox (d. 1728)

	Thomas Knox (d. 1728) Thomas, Tom or Tommy Knox may refer to: * Thomas Knox (bishop) (died 1627/28), Scottish prelate * Thomas Knox (died 1728) (c. 1640–1728), Irish MP for Newtonards and Dungannon Thomas Knox (footballer) (born 1939), Scottish footballer Thomas Knox (1694–1769), Irish MP for Dungannon * Thomas Francis Knox (1822–1882), Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic priest and author * Sir Thomas George Knox (1824–1887), Irish soldier and diplomat, consul-general in Siam Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900–1980), British philosopher and Principal of St Andrews University Thomas W. Knox (1835–1896), journalist, author and world traveler * Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (1729–1818), Irish politician * Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (1754–1840), Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (1786–1858), Anglo-Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly (1816–1858), Irish peer and Member of Parliament * Tom Knox, American businessman and politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox (bishop) Thomas Knox (1588–1628) was a Scottish prelate from the 17th century who served as Bishop of the Isles. Life He was born in 1588 the son of Andrew Knox, Bishop of the Isles, and Elizabeth ("Bessie") Knox, his cousin. He was educated at Glasgow University graduating MA in 1608. He received crown provision to the Deanery of the Isles on 4 August 1617Watt & Murray, ''Fasti Ecclesiae'', p. 270. and started serving as a minister on Tiree in 1618. He is the first Dean of the Isles to be known by name (apart from the famous Dean Monro, a century earlier), though an unnamed cathedral dean was recorded in 1572, and the "dean and chapter of Iona" are attested again on 5 June 1576. On 24 February 1619 he was granted crown provision to succeed his father as Bishop of the Isles, his father later becoming Bishop of Raphoe in Ireland. Thomas Knox's last historical appearance dates to 1 November 1627, a year later than the date given by Robert Keith. He had died by 3 April 1628, mean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox (died 1728) Thomas Knox (circa 1640 – 11 May 1728) was an Irish politician. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Newtownards from 1692 to 1693 and then for Dungannon from 1695 to 1727. On 18 November 1715 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council. His daughter Mary married Oliver St George Oliver St George (1661 – 15 April 1731) was an Irish politician. The son of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet and Olivia Beresford, he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Knox and Mary Bruce, in 1701. He was elected to the Irish House of Com ... in 1701. References 1640s births 1728 deaths Irish MPs 1692–1693 Irish MPs 1695–1699 Irish MPs 1703–1713 Irish MPs 1713–1714 Irish MPs 1715–1727 Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Down constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tyrone constituencies {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox (footballer) Thomas Knox (born 5 September 1939) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Chelsea, Mansfield Town, Newcastle United and Northampton Town Northampton Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Northampton, England. The team plays in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1897, the club competed in the Midland .... References 1939 births Living people Scottish men's footballers Men's association football forwards English Football League players East Stirlingshire F.C. players Chelsea F.C. players Newcastle United F.C. players Northampton Town F.C. players St Mirren F.C. players Hillingdon Borough F.C. players Tonbridge Angels F.C. players Basingstoke Town F.C. players Footballers from Glasgow {{Scotland-footy-forward-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox (1694–1769) Thomas, Tom or Tommy Knox may refer to: * Thomas Knox (bishop) (died 1627/28), Scottish prelate * Thomas Knox (died 1728) (c. 1640–1728), Irish MP for Newtonards and Dungannon Thomas Knox (footballer) (born 1939), Scottish footballer Thomas Knox (1694–1769), Irish MP for Dungannon * Thomas Francis Knox (1822–1882), Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic priest and author * Sir Thomas George Knox (1824–1887), Irish soldier and diplomat, consul-general in Siam Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (1900–1980), British philosopher and Principal of St Andrews University Thomas W. Knox (1835–1896), journalist, author and world traveler * Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (1729–1818), Irish politician * Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (1754–1840), Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (1786–1858), Anglo-Irish peer and politician * Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly (1816–1858), Irish peer and Member of Parliament * Tom Knox, American businessman and politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Francis Knox Father Francis Knox (born as Thomas Francis Knox; 24 December 1822 – 20 March 1882, London Thompson Cooper''Knox, Thomas Francis (1822–1882)'' reviewed by Sheridan Gilley, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, subscription only, accessed 9 October 2008 Knox, whose profile in thDictionary of New Ulster Biographyclaims he was born in County Armagh, not Brussels, was an Anglo-Irish ultramontane Roman Catholic priest and author, known for his historical writings and translations. Life Knox was the eldest son in a family connected to the Protestant Irish peerage: his father John Henry Knox, Tory MP for Newry, was a younger son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly. His mother was Mabella Josephine Needham, daughter of Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey. He was educated at a Hampshire private school and attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1845.''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' He became a Roman Catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas George Knox Sir Thomas George Knox, KCMG (1824–1887) was an Irish soldier and a diplomat, serving as consul-general in Siam from 1868 to 1879. Life He was the eldest surviving son of James Spencer Knox, D.D. (1789–1862), rector of Maghera, County Londonderry, and his wife Clara, daughter of the Right Hon. John Beresford, and was grandson of William Knox, bishop of Derry. On 17 April 1840, he was appointed ensign of the 65th Foot and, on 7 October 1842, was promoted to a lieutenancy in the 98th Foot. After serving with the 98th Foot in China and India, Knox sold out in December 1848. He subsequently served with the Siamese Army from 1851 to 1857. Siam was under Mongkut, who was opening the country to the West, and Knox functioned as a military adviser. He began by training the troops of Pinklao, who ranked as Front Palace. Knox was appointed interpreter at the British Consulate in Bangkok on 7 July 1857. He was acting consul there from December 1859 to May 1860, and was appointed c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Malcolm Knox Sir Thomas Malcolm Knox (28 November 1900 – 6 April 1980) was a British philosopher who served as Principal of St Andrews University from 1953–1966 and Vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1975–1978. Biography Knox was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, on 28 November 1900, the son of Scottish Congregationalist minister James Knox and his wife Isabella Marshall. He was educated at Bury Grammar School and the Liverpool Institute, and then at Pembroke College, Oxford where he obtained a first-class degree in Literae Humaniores in 1923. He then worked as secretary to Lord Leverhulme at Lever Brothers before running the business interests of Lever Brothers in West Africa. His first wife died in 1930 and in the following year he became Bursar-Oxbridge Fellow, Fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford, later becoming a Fellow and Tutor. His interests did not fit in with those then prevailing at Oxford and so he moved to St Andrews Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas W Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (20 April 1729 – 5 November 1818), known as The Lord Welles between 1781 and 1791, was an Irish politician. Background Thomas Knox was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin. He died on 5 November 1818 aged 89. Political career Knox was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Dungannon from 1755 until 1781. In 1781, he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone. In 1791 Knox was ennobled as Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone. With the Act of Union and the abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800, he became one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers in the British House of Lords from then until his death. About that time he was also appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tyrone. Family Knox married Anne Vesey, daughter of John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton and Elizabeth Brownlow in 1753. They had seven children: * Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (1754–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox, 1st Earl Of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (5 August 1754 – 26 April 1840), styled The Honourable Thomas Knox between 1781 and 1818 and known as The Viscount Northland between 1818 and 1831, was an Irish peer and politician. Background Ranfurly was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland, and the Hon. Anne, daughter of John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton. His brothers included bishops William Knox and Edmund Knox, George Knox , and Archdeacon Charles Knox. Political career Ranfurly was elected a member of the Irish House of Commons for Carlingford in 1776, a seat he held until 1783, and then represented Dungannon between 1783 and 1790 and County Tyrone between 1790 and 1798. He was also a member of the British House of Commons for County Tyrone from 1806 to 1812. On 18 May 1793 he was commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel and second-in-command of the newly raised Royal Tyrone Militia. He commanded the regiment on garrison duty for a year, resigning in 1794. In 1818 he succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl Of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (19 April 1786 – 21 March 1858), styled Viscount Northland between 1831 and 1840, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Background Ranfurly was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, and the Hon. Diana Jane, daughter of Edmund Pery, 1st Viscount Pery. He gained the courtesy title Viscount Northland when his father was elevated to the earldom of Ranfurly in 1831. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge. Political career Ranfurly was returned to Parliament as one of two representatives for County Tyrone in 1812 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1818. Between 1818 and 1830 he was the sole representative for Dungannon in Parliament. In 1840 he succeeded his father in the earldom and entered the House of Lords as Baron Ranfurly. Family Lord Ranfurly married Mary Juliana, daughter of the Most Reverend William Stuart, Archbishop of Armagh in 1815. Mary Juliana's mother, Sophia Margaret Penn, was the daughter of Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl Of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly (13 November 1816 – 20 May 1858), styled Viscount Northland between 1840 and 1858, was an Irish peer and member of parliament. He was the son of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly (19 April 1786 – 21 March 1858), styled Viscount Northland between 1831 and 1840, was an Anglo-Irish peer and politician. Background Ranfurly was the eldest son of Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly, and the Ho ... and his wife Mary Juliana Stuart, and represented Dungannon as a member of parliament between 9 June 1838 and 3 February 1851, when he resigned through the position of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds due to ill health. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Family He married Harriet Rimington, daughter of James Rimington, on 10 October 1848, and succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Welles of Dungannon, co. Tyrone on 21 March 1858, as well as the title of 3rd Earl of Ranfurly, the title of 3rd Baron Ranfurly of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]