Henry Thomson (1840 – 30 December 1916) was an Irish

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and Conservative politician. From 1880 to 1885 he was a Member of Parliament, representing Newry in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of which the whole of Ireland was then a part. Born in 1840, Thomson was the second son of Henry Thomson of Newry,

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, by his marriage to Anne, daughter of the Rev. William Henry, of Tassagh, County Armagh. He was educated at

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. In 1866, he married Alice Cecilia, the youngest daughter of Henry Corbet-Singleton of Aclare, County Meath.'Thomson, Henry (born 1840, died 30 Dec. 1916) JP' in ''Who Was Who'' (A & C Black, 1920–2008
online edition
(subscription required) by Oxford University Press, 2007, accessed 9 April 2011 He was a significant supporter of hare-coursing, and from 1878 onwards kept his own pack of harriers, described in 1886 as "consisting of thirteen couples, average height seventeen inches", with kennels at Newry, but with a hunting country more in County Armagh than

. He was also for a time Master of the Newry Harriers, but by 1886 had been succeeded as Master by Thomas D'Arcy Hoey JP. In 1893, his name was published as one of the "six hundred gentlemen" of the new

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.''Belfast Weekly News'' dated 21 October 1893,
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' online at failteromhat.com, accessed 12 April 2011 In London, Thomson was a member of the Carlton Club. At the time of his death on 30 December 1916, his address was given in ''

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'' as Scarvagle House, Scarva, Co. Newry (''sic'').

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thomson, Henry Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Newry (1801–1918) UK MPs 1880–1885 1840 births 1916 deaths People from Newry Irish Conservative Party MPs