Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen
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Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, 2nd Viscount Newcomen (18 September 1776 – 15 January 1825), known as The Honourable Sir Thomas Gleadowe-Newcomen, Bt between 1807 and 1817, was an Irish politician and banker.


Life

Gleadowe-Newcomen was the son of
Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet Sir William Gleadowe-Newcomen, 1st Baronet (1741 – 21 August 1807) was an Anglo-Irish politician and banker. Biography Born William Gleadowe, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Newcomen following his marriage to Charlotte Newcomen, ...
, by Charlotte, only child and heiress of Charles Newcomen, of Carrickglass, County Longford, grandson of Sir Robert Newcomen, 6th Baronet, of Kenagh (see Newcomen Baronets). Charlotte had been created Baroness Newcomen in 1800 and Viscountess Newcomen in 1802, in honour of her husband as well as in recognition of the large estates she had inherited through her father. He was appointed High Sheriff of Longford for 1801. Gleadowe-Newcomen succeeded his father as a
Knight of the Shire Knight of the shire () was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ...
for
County Longford County Longford () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is named after the town of Longford. Longford County Council is the Local government in the Republic ...
in 1802, a seat he held until 1806., leighrayment.com; accessed 20 March 2016. He succeeded his father as second Baronet and his mother as second Viscount Newcomen in 1817. However, as this was an
Irish peerage The peerage of Ireland consists of those Peerage, titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lordship of Ireland, Lord or Monarchy of Ireland, King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great B ...
, it did not entitle him to a seat in the
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. Lord Newcomen died in January 1825, aged 48, when all his titles became extinct. He inherited Newcomen Bank but after a banking failure which ruined his own family and many clients in the 1820s, he shot himself in his office.


Descendants

Newcomen never married, but had a long-term relationship with Harriet Holland, who bore him eight children. One of their daughters Theresa Newcomen (1809–1853) married firstly Captain Richard Howe Cockerell RN (1798–1839), a nephew of Sir Charles Cockerell, and had issu
three daughters


wife since 1858 of the Hon Greville Richard Vernon, son of Lord Lyveden. Their grandson became the 5th Baron in 1969, and is ancestor of the present Lord Lyveden. * Anna Theresa Cockerell, later Countess of Shrewsbury (1836–1912); she married the future earl on 15 February 1855), and is ancestress of all subsequent earls.
Frederica, Lady North
wife since January 1858 of the 11th Baron North (1836–1932), and ancestress of subsequent barons (this barony however fell into abeyance 1941). Theresa Cockerell married again 1841
Archibald Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, 1st Earl of Winton, KT, PC (29 September 18124 October 1861), styled Lord Montgomerie from 1814 to 1819, was a British Conservative politician. He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1852 and ...
as his first wife, and bore him three sons (of whom two succeeded successively to the earldom) and one daughter.


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Profile
archiseek.com; accessed 20 March 2016.


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