Thomas Foley

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Thomas Foley and Tom Foley are common names used in reference to:

• Tom Foley, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• Thomas Patrick Roger Foley, Bishop of Chicago
• Thomas C. Foley, current US ambassador to Ireland
• Tom Foley (baseball), baseball player and coach of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
• Thomas Foley (alpine skier), Irish alpine skier.
• Sir Thomas Foley, British admiral

[edit] The Barons Foley and their family

• Many of the Barons Foley in the Peerage of Great Britain and members of that family have borne the name:
  • Thomas Foley (1616-1677) of Witley Court ironmaster and ancestor of all the Barons Foley (Thomas Foley I of Witley)

[edit] Senior branch

• • Thomas Foley (c.1641-1701) of Great Witley, his eldest son: (Thomas Foley II of Witley)
  • Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1673-1733), his eldest son: (Thomas Foley III of Witley)
  • Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703-1766), his eldest son: (Thomas Foley IV of Witley)

[edit] Second Branch

• • Thomas Foley (auditor of the imprests) (c 1670-1737), of Stoke Edith (Thomas Foley I of Stoke), ironmaster and English MP, ancestor of the Barons Foley of Kidderminster (second creation), son of Paul Foley (ironmaster), who was another son of Thomas Foley (1616-1677)
  • Thomas Foley (c 1695-1749), English MP for Herefordshire 1742-1747, his eldest son: (Thomas Foley II of Stoke).
  • Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (1716-1777), his eldest son and at various times English MP for Herefordshire and for Droitwich: (Thomas Foley III of Stoke and V of Witley) inherited the Great Witley estate from his cousin the 2nd baron
  • Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1742-1793), his eldest son and English MP for Herefordshire and for Droitwich in his father's lifetime: (Thomas Foley IV of Stoke and VI of Witley)
  • Thomas Foley (1778-1822), British MP for Herefordshire 1807-1818, son of Andrew Foley (MP) youngest son of the first baron.
  • Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley (1780-1833), his only son: (Thomas Foley VII of Witley)
  • Thomas Foley, 4th Baron Foley - Thomas Henry Foley (1808-69), five times Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, that is government chief whip in the House of Lords.