Ludlow Tonson, 3rd Baron Riversdale (6 March 1784 – 13 December 1861), was a

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. Tonson was the eighth and youngest of

William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale Lieutenant-Colonel William Tonson, 1st Baron Riversdale (3 May 1724 – 4 December 1787), was an Irish landowner, soldier and politician. Tonson was the son of Richard Tonson, for many years Member of Parliament for Baltimore, by his second w ...

, by Rose Bernard, daughter of James Bernard and sister of the 1st Earl of Bandon. William Courthope (ed.)
''Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Twenty-Second edition''. London, 1838.
/ref> He was Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh between 1839 and 1861. He was consecrated on 17 February 1839 and succeeded his brother William in the barony in 1848. He died in December 1861, aged 77, when the barony became extinct.

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, Monday, Dec 16, 1861; pg. 6; Issue 24117; col F ''Ireland''

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1784 births 1861 deaths 19th-century Anglican bishops in Ireland Bishops of Killaloe and Clonfert Barons in the Peerage of Ireland Ordained peers {{Ireland-baron-stub