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See also:STEELE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1788-1848) , Irish politician and writer, a member of a See also:Somerset See also:family which settled in See also:Ireland during the 17th See also:century, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:November 1788. He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and at Magdalene College, See also:Cambridge, and succeeded to a large See also:estate in Co. See also:Clare. As a volunteer he fought against the Bourbons in See also:Spain in 1823, and, returning to Ireland, he became an enthusiastic worker for See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation, helping greatly to
return See also:Daniel O'Connell to See also:parliament for Co: `Clare at the famous See also:election of 1828. It is interesting to See also:note that Steele himself was a See also:Protestant. Having ruined his See also:fortune by contributing liberally to the causes in which he was interested, he died in See also:London on the 15th of See also:June 1848. He wrote Notes of the See also:War in Spain (1824) and some ' essays on Irish questions.
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