Thomas Span Plunket, 2nd Baron Plunket (1792–1866), was Bishop of Tuam, Killaly and Achonry. Plunket was the first son of William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket and his wife, Catherine (née McCausland). He was educated at

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. He served as

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from 1831 to 1839 before being elevated to the episcopacy as Bishop of Tuam, Killala and Achonry in 1839, a position he held until his death in 1866. He moved to live on a private estate at Tourmakeady, where he evicted many Catholic families for not sending their children to the Protestant school. In 1852 he built a Protestant church in the vicinity. On the death of his father in 1854, he became the 2nd

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. On his death, he was succeeded as Baron Plunket by his younger brother. His middle name is taken from his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth (née Span). He was buried in the churchyard of his now-ruined church at Tourmakeady.

Family

On 26 October 1819, Plunket married Louisa-Jane (1798–1893),McCausland Genealogy
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. Their children were: *

Katherine Plunket Katherine Plunket (born as Catherine Plunket; 22 November 182014 October 1932) was an Anglo Irish aristocrat and artist from Ballymascanlan, County Louth, a prolific Botanical illustrator and painter. and the oldest person ever to be born and d ...

(1820–1932) - the longest-lived Irish person ever * Emily (d.

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, 1843) * Mary *

Frederica Plunket The Honourable Frederica Louisa Edith Plunket (1838– 1886) was an Irish aristocrat from Ballymascanlan, County Louth, a prolific botanical illustrator and pioneering mountaineer. Family Plunket was born at Kilsaran, near Castlebellingham i ...

(1838–1886) * Gertrude (1 February 1841 – 1924)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Plunket, Thomas 1792 births 1866 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Deans of Down Ordained peers Bishops of Tuam, Killala, and Achonry 19th-century Anglican archbishops Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Eldest sons of British hereditary barons Members of the Privy Council of Ireland