Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (20 April 1729 – 5 November 1818), known as The Lord Welles between 1781 and 1791, was an Irish politician.

Background

Thomas Knox was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin. He died on 5 November 1818 aged 89.

Political career

Knox was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for

Dungannon Dungannon (, ) is a town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is the second-largest town in the county (after Omagh) and had a population of 16,282 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2021 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Counci ...

from 1755 until 1781. In 1781, he was elevated to the

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as Baron Welles, of

in the County of Tyrone. In 1791 Knox was ennobled as Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone. With the Act of Union and the abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800, he became one of the 28 original

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in the

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from then until his death. About that time he was also appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tyrone.

Family

Knox married Hon. Anne Vesey, daughter of John Vesey, 1st Baron Knapton and Elizabeth Brownlow in 1753. They had seven children: *

Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly Thomas Knox, 1st Earl of Ranfurly (5 August 1754 – 26 April 1840), styled The Honourable Thomas Knox between 1781 and 1818 and known as The Viscount Northland between 1818 and 1831, was an Irish peer and politician. Early life Ranfurly was th ...

(1754–1840) * Maj.-Gen. Hon.

John Knox John Knox ( – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgate, a street in Haddington, East Lot ...

(1758–1800) * Hon. Vesey Knox (1760–1830) * Hon. William Knox (1762–1831), Bishop of Derry * Hon. George Knox (1765–1827), MP for Dublin University * Hon. Charles Knox (1770–1825), Archdeacon of Armagh * Hon. Edmund Knox (1772–1849), Bishop of Limerick

References

External links

Public Records Office
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