Thomas Larcom
| Thomas Larcom | |
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| Born | 22 April 1801  |
| Died | 15 June 1879 (aged 78) |
| Spouse(s) | Georgina d'Aguilar |
| Children | Georgina Frances Larcom, George Larcom, Thomas Henry Larcom, Sir Charles Larcom, 2nd Bt., Arthur Larcom |
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| Family | Joseph Paffard Dickson Larcom |
| Rank | major general |
Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 1st Baronet PC FRS (22 April 1801 – 15 June 1879)[1][2] was a leading official in the early Irish Ordnance Survey that started in 1824. He later became a poor law commissioner, census commissioner and finally executive head of the British administration in Ireland as under-secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a position the government of the day was eager for him to take.
The longest-serving under-secretary (1853–1868), and a man of unusual abilities, Larcom had a distinguished career in his adopted country and acted with an impartiality that won him respect from all parties. In 1868 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council and created a Baronet.
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Bibliography[]
- Ordnance survey of the county of Londonderry (1837)
- Petty, William (1851). Larcom, Thomas Aiskew (ed.). . Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society – via Wikisource.
Footnotes[]
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Dictionary of Ulster Biography
- ^ Burke's Peerage. 1949.
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- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
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Categories:
- 1801 births
- 1879 deaths
- Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
- Royal Engineers officers
- Ordnance Survey
- Surveying
- Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
- Under-Secretaries for Ireland
- Fellows of the Royal Society