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Thomas Towneley O'Hagan, 2nd Baron O'Hagan (5 December 1878 – 13 December 1900), was a British peer and soldier. He was the eldest son of
Thomas O'Hagan Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan, KP, PC (Ire), QC (29 May 18121 February 1885), was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1868 to 1874 and again from 1880 to 1881. Background and education O'Hagan was bor ...
, the
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in Gladstone's first two governments, and of Alice Towneley from Lancashire's prominent
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, from whom he inherited considerable land holdings of some . He was educated at Sandhurst. He inherited his title at the age of seven, but never took up his seat in the
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before his premature death. From 1899, he served in
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during Boer War as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of
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, but died abruptly of an unknown illness (thought to have been
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) just over a week after his 22nd birthday. As he died unmarried and without children, the title passed on to his younger brother
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*''Who Was Who, 1897-2005'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Ohagan, Thomas Ohagan, 2nd Baron 1878 births 1900 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Grenadier Guards officers British people of Irish descent
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