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Anglo-Irish Whig politician (1787-1870)

Thomas Taylour2nd Marquess of Headfort, KP PC
Member of Parliament (MP) for Meath
In office
1812–1830Serving with Sir Marcus Somerville, 4th Baronet
Preceded byThomas Cherburgh Bligh
Succeeded byArthur Plunkett, 9th Earl of Fingall
Personal details
Born(1787-05-04)4 May 1787
Died6 December 1870(1870-12-06) (aged 83)
Political partyWhig
Spouse(s) Olivia Stevenson ​ ​(m. 1822; died 1834)​
Lady Frances Macnaghten
Children9
Parents
RelativesThomas Taylour (son)
Virginia Taylour (daughter)

Thomas Taylour, 2nd Marquess of Headfort KP PC (4 May 1787 – 6 December 1870), styled Viscount Headfort from 1795 to 1800 and Earl of Bective from 1800 to 1829, was an Anglo-Irish Whig politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Meath from 1812 to 1830.

Headfort was the son of Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort, and his wife Mary (née Quin), and succeeded his father in the marquessate in 1829. In 1831 he was created Baron Kenlis, of Kenlis in the County of Meath, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords (his other titles being in the Peerage of Ireland). He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1835 and served in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1837 to 1841. Between 1831 and 1870 Headfort also held the post of Lord Lieutenant of Cavan. He was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick in 1839.

He succeeded his father as Colonel of the disembodied Royal Meath Militia on 7 April 1823, and continued as the regiment's Honorary Colonel after it was revived in 1852.

Lord Headfort first married Olivia, daughter of John Andrew Stevenson, in 1822. At the time of her early death, of cholera, on 21 July 1834, she left her husband with nine children. On 6 May 1853, he married Lady Frances Macnaghten, daughter of John Livingstone Martyn and widow of (i) Lieutenant-Colonel James McClintock of the Bombay Army and (ii) Sir William Hay Macnaghten, British Envoy to Afghanistan who was murdered in Kabul in 1841. Headfort died in December 1870, aged 83, and was succeeded in the marquessate by his son from his first marriage, Thomas. Another of his children by his first marriage was the author Virginia Sandars. The second Marchioness of Headfort died in 1878.

Notes

  1. Arthur Sleigh, The Royal Militia and Yeomanry Cavalry Army List, April 1850, London: British Army Despatch Press, 1850/Uckfield: Naval and Military Press, 1991, ISBN 978-1-84342-410-9, p. 158.
  2. Army List, various dates.

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Honorary titles
New title Lord-Lieutenant of County Cavan
1831–1870 		Succeeded byThe Lord Lisgar
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded byThomas Taylour Marquess of Headfort
1829–1870 		Succeeded byThomas Taylour
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Kenlis
1831–1870 		Succeeded byThomas Taylour
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