Thomas Southwell, 2nd Viscount Southwell

Thomas Arthur Southwell, 2nd Viscount Southwell (16 April 1742 – 14 February 1796),[1] styled The Honourable from 1766 until 1780, was an Irish peer and politician.

He was the oldest son of Thomas Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell and his wife Margaret Hamilton, daughter of Arthur Cecil Hamilton of Castle Hamilton, Killeshandra Co. Cavan.[2] His younger brother was Robert Henry Southwell.[3] Southwell was educated at Trinity College Dublin.[4] In 1780, he succeeded his father as viscount.[3]

In 1767, Southwell entered the Irish House of Commons for County Limerick, the same constituency his father had represented before, and sat for it until the following year.[5]

Marriage, children, and succession

On 7 November 1774, he married Sophia Maria Josepha Walsh, third daughter of Francis Joseph Walsh, Comte de Serrant, and had by her four sons and four daughters.[2] Southwell died aged 53 and was succeeded in his titles by his oldest son Thomas.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Peerage". Archived from the original on 8 June 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ a b Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 781.
  3. ^ a b Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. I. Dublin: James Moore. pp. 27–28.
  4. ^ "ThePeerage - Thomas Arthur Southwell, 2nd Viscount Southwell of Castle Mattress". Retrieved 12 June 2009.
  5. ^ "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 7 June 2008. Retrieved 12 June 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. II (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 465.
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by Member of Parliament for County Limerick
1767–1768
With: Hugh Massy 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Viscount Southwell
1780–1796 		Succeeded by