Henry Thomson (Irish politician)

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Henry Thomson (1840 – 30 December 1916) was an Irish Justice of the Peace and Conservative politician. From 1880 to 1885 he was a Member of Parliament, representing Newry in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, of which the whole of Ireland was then a part.[1]

Born in 1840, Thomson was the second son of Henry Thomson of Newry, County Down, by his marriage to Anne, daughter of the Rev. William Henry, of , County Armagh. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1866, he married Alice Cecilia, the youngest daughter of Henry Corbet-Singleton of Aclare, County Meath.[2]

He was a significant supporter of hare-coursing, and from 1878 onwards kept his own pack of harriers, described in 1886 as "consisting of thirteen couples, average height seventeen inches", with kennels at Newry, but with a hunting country more in County Armagh than County Down. He was also for a time Master of the Newry Harriers, but by 1886 had been succeeded as Master by Thomas D'Arcy Hoey JP.[3]

In 1893, his name was published as one of the "six hundred gentlemen" of the new Ulster Defence Union.[4]

In London, Thomson was a member of the Carlton Club. At the time of his death on 30 December 1916, his address was given in Who's Who as Scarvagle House, Scarva, Co. Newry (sic).[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages, Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "N", part 2[usurped!], at leighrayment.com
  2. ^ a b 'Thomson, Henry (born 1840, died 30 Dec. 1916) JP' in Who Was Who (A & C Black, 1920–2008) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, 2007, accessed 9 April 2011
  3. ^ George Henry Bassett, County Down (from Bassett's County Down Guide and Directory, 1886) at oracleireland.com, accessed 12 April 2011
  4. ^ Belfast Weekly News dated 21 October 1893, Ulster Defence Union online at failteromhat.com, accessed 12 April 2011

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Preceded by Member of Parliament for Newry
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