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See also:TARA, VISCOUNTS AND BARONS . The 1st See also:Viscount Tara was 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 See also:Preston (1585-1655), a descendant of See also:Sir See also:Robert de Preston, who in 1363 See also:purchased the lands of Gormanston, Co. See also:Meath, and who was keeper of the See also:Great See also:Seal in See also:Ireland some years later. Sir Robert's great-See also:grandson, Robert Preston, was created Viscount Gormanston in 1478; and the Tatter's great-grandson was See also:Christopher, 4th Viscount Gormanston (d. 1599), whose second son was Thomas Preston, Viscount Tara. The latter was in the same Irish See also:regiment in the See also:Spanish service as See also:Owen See also:Roe O'See also:Neill, and distinguished himself in the See also:defence of See also:Louvain against the See also:French and Dutch in 1635. Between him and Owen Roe O'Neill there was from the first intense See also:jealousy. Preston, who was appointed See also:general of See also:Leinster, took a prominent and not unsuccessful See also:part in the See also:war of factions that raged intermittently in Ireland from 1642 to 1652. In 165o See also:Charles II. while in See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile created him Viscount Tara; and after his departure from Ireland in 1652 he offered his services to Charles in See also:Paris, where he died in See also:October 1655. His wife was a Flemish See also:lady of See also:rank, by whom he had several See also:children, one of his daughters being the second wife of Sir Phelim O'Neill. His son See also:Anthony succeeded him as 2nd Viscount Tara, a See also:title that became See also:extinct on the See also:death of Thomas, 3rd Viscount, in 1674.
In 1691 Meinhart de See also:Schomberg, 3rd See also:duke of Schomberg, second son of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III.'s famous general, was created See also:Baron Tara, See also:earl of See also:Bangor, and duke of Leinster, in the See also:peerage of Ireland, all of which titles became extinct at his death without sons in 1719. The title of Baron Tara was again revived in 1800 in favour of See also:John Preston of Bellinter, Co. Meath, as a See also:reward for his See also:vote in favour of the See also:Union in the Irish See also:House of See also:Commons, in which he sat as member for See also:Navan. At his death without issue in 1821, the peerage became extinct.
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