Thomas Knox (circa 1640 – 11 May 1728) was an Irish politician. 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 ...

for

Newtownards Newtownards is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies at the most northern tip of Strangford Lough, 10 miles (16 km) east of Belfast, on the Ards Peninsula. It is in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Newtownard ...

from 1692 to 1693 and then 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 14,340 at the 2011 Census. The Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council had its headquarters in the ...

from 1695 to 1727. On 18 November 1715 he was appointed to the

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. His daughter Mary married

Oliver St George Oliver St George (1661 – 15 April 1731) was an Irish politician. The son of Sir Oliver St George, 1st Baronet and Olivia Beresford, he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Knox and Mary Bruce, in 1701. He was elected to the Irish House of Com ...

in 1701.

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