Sir Thomas Fetherston, 2nd Baronet (1759 – 19 July 1819), alias Fetherstonhaugh, was an

Anglo-Irish Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the establis ...

politician. Fetherston was the son of

Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Baronet Sir Ralph Fetherston, 1st Baronet (died May 1780) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Fetherstone represented County Longford in the Irish House of Commons from 1765 to 1768. Between 1768 and his death in 1780 he represented St Johnstown.E. M. Johnst ...

and succeeded to his title in 1780. He sat in the

Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...

as the

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for St Johnstown between 1783 and 1790, and then represented Longford County from 1796 to 1800.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.87 (Retrieved 4 April 2020). He subsequently sat for

Longford Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It has a population of 10,008 according to the 2016 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meet ...

in the

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between 1801 and his death in 1819. He was succeeded in his title by his son, George Ralph Fetherston.

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