Sir Thomas Hackett (died 1706) was an Irish Jacobite official and merchant.

Biography

Hackett was the son of James Hackett and Alison White. He was engaged in foreign trade out of

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by 1666, and became a banker to many

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Roman Catholic families in Ireland. In October 1687, he was knighted and appointed Lord Mayor of Dublin by

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. He was the

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for Portarlington in the brief

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called by James II in 1689.O'Hart, John
The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689
''Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'' (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 3 February 2023. He was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Dublin and a

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. The Jacobite defeat in Ireland in 1690 resulted in Hackett being outlawed and most of his properties were seized. As a result, he became deeply indebted. In 1694 he had a pass to go to the

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, where his activities were monitored by English government officials who believed him to be an agent of the Jacobite court in exile at

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. He was granted legal protection in Dublin in 1700 after testifying in a legal dispute over forfeited lands, but had been imprisoned in Dublin for debt by 1705. He died the following year.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hackett, Thomas Year of birth unknown 1706 deaths 17th-century Irish people Deputy Lieutenants of Dublin (city) Irish bankers Irish Jacobites Irish justices of the peace Irish knights Irish merchants Irish MPs 1689 Lord Mayors of Dublin Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Queen's County constituencies