Thomas Barnewall, 13th Baron Trimlestown (died 24 December 1796) was an Irish noble. He was the eldest surviving son of

Robert Barnewall, 12th Baron Trimlestown Robert Barnewall, 12th Baron Trimlestown (''c.''1704 – 6 December 1779) was a prominent Anglo-Irish landowner, active in the Roman Catholic cause. Early life Robert was the eldest son of John Barnewall, 11th Baron Trimlestown (1672–1746). Ro ...

and his first wife Margaret Rochfort, daughter of James Rochfort of Laragh. The title was technically under an

attainder In English criminal law, attainder was the metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood" which arose from being condemned for a serious capital crime (felony or treason). It entailed losing not only one's life, property and hereditary titles, but ...

, which Thomas succeeded in having lifted by conforming openly to the

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, a step which his father, a devout

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, and a prominent spokesman for the rights of his fellow Catholics, would certainly not have taken. He took his seat in the

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on 13 April 1795. He died unmarried little more than a year later, at which point his title passed to his cousin

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1796 deaths Year of birth missing 18th-century Irish nobility 13 {{Ireland-baron-stub

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