Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (11 February 1844 – 15 December 1893), styled Lord Kenlis until 1870, was an

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politician. Bective was the son of

Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort Order of St Patrick, KP Privy Council of Ireland, 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 High Sheriff ...

, by his first wife Amelia (née Thompson). Kenlis was educated at Eton and

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. He entered Parliament for

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in 1871 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented

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until 1892. In 1884 he wrote to the Manchester-based ''Women's Suffrage Journal'' in support of the principle of women's suffrage, stating, "I think that (with certain limitations) women ought to be owners of the franchise. In fact, I think many women, especially freeholders and those who own a certain amount of property, are much more entitled to it than many men whom it is intended to enfranchise by the present Bill assed into law as the Representation of the People Act 1884">Representation_of_the_People_Act_1884.html" ;"title="assed into law as the Representation of the People Act 1884">assed into law as the Representation of the People Act 1884" Lord Bective married Lady Alice Maria, daughter of Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire, in 1867. They had two daughters: * Lady Olivia Caroline Amelia Taylour (22 January 1869 – 26 November 1939), married Lord Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, half-brother of the William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, 6th Duke of Portland, without issue * Lady Evelyn Alice Estelle Taylour (10 February 1873 – 16 September 1875) Bective served as High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1868. He died December 1893, aged 49, predeceasing his father by seven months. His half-brother Geoffrey later succeeded in the marquessate. The Countess of Bective died in 1928. He was a

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, and served from 1886 as Grand Sovereign (head of the Order) of the Masonic and Military Order of the

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and the Appendant Orders of the Holy Sepulchre and of St John the Evangelist, which is a masonic order open only to

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Christians. His brother Geoffrey, who succeeded to the marquessate, was also a Freemason.See 'History of the Lodge of Assistance 1899–2002', page 24.

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

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