Thomas Larcom

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Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, KB, Bart (1801-79), was a leading official in the early Irish Ordnance Survey that started in 1824. He later became a poor law commissioner, census commissioner and finally executive head of the British administration in Ireland as under-secretary to the lord lieutenant, a position the government of the day was eager for him to take.

The longest-serving under-secretary (1853-68), and a man of unusual abilities, Larcom had a distinguished career in his adopted country and acted with an impartiality that won him respect from all parties.