Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort KP PC (I) (1 November 1822 – 22 July 1894) was an Irish peer, styled Lord Kenlis until 1829 and Earl of Bective from 1829 to 1870. He was

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in 1844, of

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in 1846, and of

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in 1853. From 1852 to 1853, he was State Steward to the

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. In 1854, Bective succeeded his father-in-law as Member of Parliament for

, sitting as a

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. He succeeded his father as Marquess of Headfort in 1870. He also inherited his father's title of Baron Kenlis, in the

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, and so gained a seat in the

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; his son Thomas replaced him in the

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for Westmorland. He was an Irish

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, having been initiated in Lodge No 244 (Kells, Ireland), and served as the Provincial Grand Master of Meath from 1888 until his death and burial at

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in 1894. He was also an English Freemason and belonged to a number of Masonic Orders. In particular, he served as Grand Sovereign (the Head of the Order) of the Masonic and Military Order of the

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from 1866 until 1874. He succeeded his father as Honorary Colonel of the Royal Meath Militia. He held significant landholdings, covering nearly 43,000 acres in Ireland and Great Britain.

Family

On 20 July 1842, he married Amelia Thompson, daughter of William Thompson. They had seven children: *

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(1844–1893) * Hon. William Arthur Taylour (5 March 1845 – 1 December 1845) * Lady Evelyn Amelia Taylour (8 August 1846 – 10 July 1866) * Lady Madeline Olivia Susan Taylour (30 January 1848 – 27 January 1876), married Hon. Charles Frederick Crichton, son of

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, and had issue * Lady Adelaide Louisa Jane Taylour (24 June 1849 – 7 November 1935) * Lady Isabel Frances Taylour (10 May 1853 – 17 November 1909), married Sir FitzRoy Clayton; mother of

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* Lady Florence Jane Taylour (21 June 1855 – 16 August 1907), married

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His wife Amelia died on 4 December 1864. On 29 November 1875, he married again, to Emily Constantia Thynne, daughter of Rev.

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and granddaughter of

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. They had two children: * Lady Beatrix Taylour (6 January 1877 – 3 May 1944), married Hon. Sir

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(12 June 1878 – 29 January 1943) His eldest son Thomas died in 1894, a few months before his father, and so the marquessate passed to Geoffrey, Headfort's only son by his second marriage. The Dowager Marchioness visited

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to attend the

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held in January 1903 to celebrated the succession of King

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as Emperor of India. She died in 1926.

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