Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776 - 1869)

Born 8 Jan 1776 in Limerick, Ireland

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Died 4 May 1869 at age 93 in New Court, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.

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Rt. Hon Thomas Lefroy was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Thomas was born in 1776. He was the son of Lt Col Lefroy and Anne Gardiner.

Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 1776 – 4 May 1869) was an Irish-Huguenot politician and judge. He was the son of Lt.-Col. Anthony Peter Lefroy and his wife Anne, daughter of Col. Thomas George Gardner of Doonass, Co. Clare, Ireland.

The Lefroy family were protestant refugees who fled from Flanders to England in about 1580. Anthony Peter the elder son of Anthony Lefroy, having entered the army as an Ensign, was posted to Limerick. While still a very junior officer he met and married in 1765, Ann Gardner of Doonass in Co.Clare. Five girls were born to them before, in 1776, a son arrived and was baptised Thomas Langlois.^[1]

He served as an MP for the constituency of Dublin University in 1830–1841, Privy Councillor of Ireland in 1835–1869 and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1852–1866.

In 1796, Lefroy began a flirtation with English novelist Jane Austen, who was a friend of an older female relative.

In 1864 he was the executor for the will of Thomas Lefroy COURTENAY.

Tom Lefroy married Mary Paul on 16 March 1799 in north Wales. From their marriage, they had seven children as listed in the Visitation of Ireland: Anthony Lefroy (21 March 1800 – 11 January 1890), subsequently MP for his father's old seat of Dublin University. Jane Christmas Lefroy (24 June 1802 – 3 August 1896) Anne Lefroy (25 April 1804 – 24 February 1885) Thomas Paul Lefroy (31 December 1806 – 29 January 1891); wrote Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy, published in 1871) The Very Rev. Jeffry Lefroy (25 March 1809–10 December 1885) George Thomson Lefroy (26 May 1811 – 19 March 1890) Mary Elizabeth Lefroy (19 December 1817 – 23 January 1890) Another son (Benjamin, born 25 March 1815) died in infancy. Tom Lefroy's daughters never married.

He passed away in 1869.

Sources

1. ↑ Irish Identity Who was the Real Thomas Lefroy? Courtesy of the Longford Leader, accessed 23 Feb 2019

• The Peerage.com (M, #248997)
• The History of Parliament - LEFROY Thomas Langlois
• Wikipedia, Thomas Langois Lefroy, accessed 23 Sep 2016.
• Dictionary of National Biography
• Lefroy, John Henry 'Notes and documents relating to the family of Loffroy, by a cadet'[1]