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Thomas Fortescue (1683 – 23 January 1769) was an Irish Member of Parliament.
Thomas Fortescue (1683 – 23 January 1769) was an Irish Member of Parliament.
Origins
He was descended from Sir Faithful Fortescue (c.1581–1666), aroyalist
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commander during the English Civil War
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, a member of the Fortescue family of Buckland Filleigh in Devon, descended from Sir John Fortescue (c.1394-1479), Chief Justice of the King's Bench
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, of Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire
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, a younger grandson of the Fortescue family of Whympston
Whympston in the parish of Modbury in Devon, England, was a historic Manorialism, manor that belonged to the Earl Fortescue, Fortescue family.
Descent
Fortescue
As the 17th-century Fortescue mural monument in the parish church of Weare Gif ...
in the parish of Modbury
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in Devon, the earliest Fortescue seat in England. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.359 ''a quo Lord Clermont''
Career
He sat in theIrish House of Commons
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for Dundalk
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from 1727 to 1760.
Marriage and children
He married Elizabeth Hamilton, a daughter of James Hamilton, a sister ofJames Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil
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Hamilton was the son of James Hamilton and Hon. Anne Mordaunt, the daughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Visco ...
and a granddaughter of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt
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Biography
He was born in Lowick, Northamptonshire, the second son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough and Elizabeth Howard (d. 1 ...
, by whom he had children including:
* William Henry Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clermont;
* James Fortescue, an MP and Privy Councillor;
*Charlotte Fortescue, who married Sir Henry Goodricke, 6th Baronet;
*Margaret Fortescue, who married Sir Arthur Brooke, 1st Baronet.
Further reading
* Clermont, Lord (d.1887), History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, London, 1880References
* http://thepeerage.com/p18069.htm#i180688 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fortescue, Thomas 1683 births 1769 deaths Irish MPs 1727–1760Thomas
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Louth constituencies