Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland
Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland (20 April 1729 – 5 November 1818), known as The Lord Welles between 1781 and 1791, was an Irish politician.
Background
Thomas Knox was the son of Thomas Knox and Hester Echlin. He married Anne Vesey in 1753 and they had seven children. He died on 5 November 1818 at age 89.[1]
Political career
Knox was Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons for Dungannon from 1755 until 1781. In 1781,[2] he was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Welles, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone.[3]
In 1791 Knox was ennobled as Viscount Northland, of Dungannon in the County of Tyrone.[4] With the Act of Union and the abolition of the Irish Parliament in 1800, he became one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers in the British House of Lords from then until his death.
About that time he was also appointed Custos Rotulorum of Tyrone.[5]
References
- ^ "Thomas Knox, 1st Viscount Northland of Dungannon". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
- ^ "Person Page". thepeerage.com.
- ^ Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage. Vol. 3 (107 ed.). Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books). p. 3270. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help) - ^ "No. 13322". The London Gazette. 2 July 1791. p. 387.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. p. 567.
External links
- Public Records Office of Northern Ireland
- 1729 births
- 1818 deaths
- Irish MPs 1727–1760
- Irish MPs 1761–1768
- Irish MPs 1769–1776
- Irish MPs 1776–1783
- Irish representative peers
- Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tyrone constituencies
- Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland
- Members of the Irish House of Lords
- Peers of Ireland created by George III