Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci
The Rt Hon. Thomas Vesey, 1st Viscount de Vesci and 2nd Baron Knapton (died 13 October 1804), was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Lord de Vesci was the son of The 1st Baron Knapton and Elizabeth Brownlow. He succeeded to his father's peerage in 1761, and assumed his seat in the Irish House of Lords. On 19 July 1776 he was made Viscount de Vesci, of Abbeyleix in the Queen's County, in the Peerage of Ireland.[1]
On 24 April 1769, Lord Knapton, as he then was, married Selina Elizabeth Brooke, the eldest daughter and co-heriress of Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet. Lord de Vesci was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, John Vesey.[2]
References
- ^ John Debrett, The peerage of the united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 9th Edition (G. Woodfall, 1814), p.1058 (Retrieved 25 February 2016).
- ^ John Debrett, The peerage of the united Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 9th Edition (G. Woodfall, 1814), p.1058 (Retrieved 25 February 2016).