Thomas Arthur Joseph Southwell, 4th Viscount Southwell
KP (6 April 1836 – 26 April 1878) was an Irish peer. He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Francis Southwell and Mary Anne Agnes Dillon. He joined the Army, but resigned after only three years. He became
Viscount Southwell in 1860 on the death of his uncle
Thomas Southwell, 3rd Viscount Southwell, whose heir apparent died without issue, and was appointed a Knight of the
Order of St Patrick
The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. The Order was created in 1783 by King George III at the request of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, ...
on 2 August 1871.
Lord Southwell married Charlotte Mary Barbara Mostyn, daughter of Sir Pyers Mostyn,
8th Bt. and the Hon. Frances Georgiana Fraser (youngest daughter of
Thomas Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat
Thomas Alexander Fraser, 12th Lord Lovat and 1st Baron Lovat, (17 June 1802 – 28 June 1875) was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman. He was the 21st Chief ''MacShimidh'' of Clan Fraser of Lovat, succeeding to the title of his distant cousin, the Sim ...
). They had a son, who became the 5th Viscount, and a daughter, Frances, who married Major Herbert Stourton, a grandson of
Charles Stourton, 19th Baron Stourton.
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1836 births
1878 deaths
19th-century Irish people
Nobility from County Limerick
Knights of St Patrick
Lord-lieutenants of Leitrim
Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland