The Rt. Hon. Thomas Lough, P.C. (1850 – 11 January 1922), was an

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radical

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politician. He was born in

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, Ireland, to Mathew Lough and Martha Steel, and was educated at The Royal School in Cavan Town and at Wesleyan Connexional School, Dublin. He worked as a tea merchant in London from 1880. He was an unsuccessful Liberal candidate for

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at the 1886 general election and in 1888 appointed

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as a private secretary. Lough was Liberal member of parliament (MP) for Islington West from 1892 until 1918. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education from 1905 until 1908. Thomas along with his younger brother Arthur Steel Lough were pioneers of the Drummully Agricultural Co-operative & Dairy Society in 1896, later to become Killeshandra Co-operative Agricultural Dairy Society and progressed to become one of Ireland's leading dairy companies, now internationally known as Lakeland Dairies. He was Lord Lieutenant of Cavan from 1907 until his death, and was appointed a

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in 1908. As part of the former position, he was '' Custos Rotulorum'' for County CavanCatalogue of the papers of John Redmond, Collection list 118, National Library of Ireland, p. 233. Available from: http://www.nli.ie/en/ManuscriptListResult.aspx?NameSrKey=redmond&CategorySrKey=&ListNumberSrKey=&SortAction=&SortOrderAction=asc&ResultsReqKey=

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* 1850 births 1922 deaths Politicians from County Cavan Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1892–1895 UK MPs 1895–1900 UK MPs 1900–1906 UK MPs 1906–1910 UK MPs 1910 UK MPs 1910–1918 Lord-lieutenants of Cavan People from Killeshandra {{England-Liberal-UK-MP-stub