Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort (4 May 1787 – 6 December 1870), styled Viscount Headfort from 1795 to 1800 and Earl of Bective from 1800 to 1829, was an

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Whig politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1812 to 1830. Headfort was the son of

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, and his wife Mary (née Quin), and succeeded his father in the

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in 1829. In 1831 he was created Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath, in the

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, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the

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(his other titles being in the

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). He was sworn of the

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in 1835 and served in the Whig administration of

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as a

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(government whip in the House of Lords) from 1837 to 1841. Between 1831 and 1870 Headfort also held the post of

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. He was made a

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in 1839. He succeeded his father as

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of the disembodied Royal Meath Militia on 7 April 1823, and continued as the regiment's Honorary Colonel after it was revived in 1852.''Army List'', various dates. Lord Headfort first married Olivia Dalton, widow of Edward Tuite Dalton (with whom she had a daughter, Adelaide Dalton, wife of

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) and daughter of Sir John Andrew Stevenson, in 1822. At the time of her early death, of cholera, on 21 July 1834, she left her husband with nine children. On 6 May 1853, he married Lady Frances Macnaghten, daughter of John Livingstone Martyn and widow of (i) Lieutenant-Colonel James McClintock of the Bombay Army and (ii) Sir

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, British Envoy to Afghanistan who was murdered in Kabul in 1841. Headfort died in December 1870, aged 83, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his son from his first marriage,

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. Another of his children by his first marriage was the author Virginia Sandars. The second Marchioness of Headfort died in 1878.

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. * *
www.thepeerage.com

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