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Thomas Fortescue (1683 – 23 January 1769) was an Irish
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.


Origins

He was descended from Sir
Faithful Fortescue Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666), of Dromiskin in County Louth, Ireland, was Governor of Carrickfergus in Ireland, long the chief seat and garrison of the English in Ulster and was a royalist commander during the English Civil War. Origin ...
(c.1581–1666), a
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commander during the
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, a member of the Fortescue family of
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in Devon, descended from Sir John Fortescue (c.1394-1479),
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, of
Ebrington Manor Ebrington Manor is a grade II listed manor house in the parish of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1476 it has been a seat of the Fortescue family, since 1789 Earls Fortescue. Location It is located within the village of Ebri ...
,
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, a younger grandson of the Fortescue family of Whympston in the parish of Modbury in Devon, the earliest Fortescue seat in England. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.359 ''a quo Lord Clermont''


Career

He sat in the Irish House of Commons for
Dundalk Dundalk ( ; ga, Dún Dealgan ), meaning "the fort of Dealgan", is the county town (the administrative centre) of County Louth, Ireland. The town is on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the east coast of Ireland. It is h ...
from 1727 to 1760.


Marriage and children

He married Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, a sister of
James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil PC(I) (14 August 1694 – 17 March 1758) was a British politician and peer. Hamilton was the son of James Hamilton and Hon. Anne Mordaunt, the daughter of The 1st Viscount Mordaunt. He first stood for el ...
and a granddaughter of
John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt (18 June 1627 – 5 June 1675) was an English royalist. He was born in Lowick, Northamptonshire, the second son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Elizabeth Howard (d. 1671), daughter of William H ...
, by whom he had children including: * William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont; *
James Fortescue James Fortescue (15 May 1725 – May 1782) was an Irish politician. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dundalk between 1757 and 1760 and County Louth between 1761 and his death. He was also elected for Monaghan in 1776, but chose to ...
, an MP and Privy Councillor; *Charlotte Fortescue, who married Sir Henry Goodricke, 6th Baronet; *Margaret Fortescue, who married Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet.


Further reading

* Clermont, Lord (d.1887), History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, London, 1880


References

* http://thepeerage.com/p18069.htm#i180688 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fortescue, Thomas 1683 births 1769 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies