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Thomas Christmas was an Irish politician.
Christmas was born in 
Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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, son of Richard Christmas, High Sheriff of Waterford
The High Sheriff of County Waterford was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Waterford. Initially, an office for a lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became an annual appointment following the Provisions of Oxfor ...
in 1686, and Susanna Aland, daughter of Henry Aland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin
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. He was MP for the Irish constituency of Waterford City
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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from 1713 to 1747. Like his father and his grandfather, the elder Thomas Christmas, he was High Sheriff of Waterford (1715). The Christmas family were dominant in Waterford politics from the late seventeenth century up to the 1860s.
He married Elizabeth Marshall, daughter of John Marshall of Clonmel
Clonmel () is the county town and largest settlement of County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is noted in Irish history for its resistance to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, Cromwellian army which sacked the towns of Dro ...
(died 1717), and sister of Robert Marshall, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)
The Court of Common Pleas was one of the principal courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror image of the equivalent court in England. Common Pleas was one of the four courts of justice which gave the Four Courts in Dublin, which is still ...
; Robert is best remembered as the executor
An executor is someone who is responsible for executing, or following through on, an assigned task or duty. The feminine form, executrix, may sometimes be used.
Overview
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and co-legatee of Esther Vanhomrigh
Esther Vanhomrigh or Van Homrigh (known by the pseudonym Vanessa; c. 1688 – 2 June 1723), an Irish woman of Dutch (ethnic group), Dutch descent, was a longtime lover and correspondent of Jonathan Swift. Swift's letters to her were published ...
, the beloved "Vanessa" of Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish Satire, satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whig (British political party), Whigs, then for the Tories (British political party), Tories), poe ...
. Thomas and Elizabeth had four children, including Thomas junior and William, who both followed their father into Parliament, and Elizabeth, who married Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet
Sir William Osborne, 8th Baronet, (d. 30 September 1783) was an Irish baronet and politician.
Biography
The son of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and his wife Editha Proby, he succeeded in the baronetcy on 11 April 1743.
Osborne served as Hig ...
. Their daughter Ada married her cousin Thomas Christmas and had issue including William Christmas. Thomas junior married Lady Catherine Beresford, daughter of Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone
Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone (16 July 1694 – 4 April 1763), known as Sir Marcus Beresford, 4th Baronet, until 1720 and subsequently as The Viscount Tyrone until 1746, was an Irish peer, freemason and politician.
Background
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. After his early death, Catherine remarried Theophilus Jones and had three sons.
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