Thomas Devereux Pile
Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Baronet (27 February 1856 – 17 January 1931) was an Irish politician. He was a member of the Irish Unionist Alliance. He was the son of Thomas Pile and Anne Poole.[1] He married Caroline Maude Nicholson on 3 May 1882, and they had four children, including Frederick Alfred Pile.[2]
He was a member of Dublin Corporation for the Fitzwilliam ward, and became the Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1900.[3] As Lord Mayor, he welcomed Queen Victoria to Dublin in 1900 when she came to pay tribute to the Irish troops who fought in the Boer War.[3] He was created 1st Baronet Pile, of Kenilworth House, Rathgar, County Dublin on 24 September 1900. He was the last titled person and last unionist politician to be Lord Mayor of Dublin. He held the office of Sheriff of Dublin City in 1898.[4]
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- ^ "Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Bt". thepeerage.com. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
- ^ "Frederick Pile". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31549. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b "An Irishman's Diary". The Irish Times. 8 January 2007.
- ^ "Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1932), Saturday 21 May 1898". Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932). Trove. 21 May 1898. p. 5. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
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