Thomas Waring

Col. Thomas Waring JP (17 October 1828-12 August 1898)[1] was an Irish barrister and Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at Westminster.

Born at his family's ancestral home, Waringstown House, Waringstown, County Down then son of Major Henry Waring JP and Frances Grace Waring (herself the daughter of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, Dean of Dromore).[2]Waring was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1885, until his death in 1898,[3] and served as High Sheriff of County Down (1868-1869). He was an opponent of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule policy.[4] His first wife, Esther Smyth of Ardmore, Co. Londonderry, dying in 1873, aged 36, Waring married, secondly, on 6 August 1874, Fanny Tucker, of Trematon Castle, Cornwall. Fanny Waring died on 13 November 1883; Thomas Waring married for a third time, at Rostrevor, to Geraldine Stewart, of Ballyedmond, Rostrevor, Co. Down.[5]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
New constituency		 Member of Parliament for Down, North
1885–1898		 Succeeded by
John Blakiston-Houston

References

  1. ^ ‘WARING, Col Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 Dec 2010
  2. ^ ‘WARING, Col Thomas’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 4 Dec 2010
  3. ^ History of the Diocese of Dromore (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/DromoreUlsterDiocese.pdf)
  4. ^ History of the Diocese of Dromore (http://www.ucc.ie/celt/DromoreUlsterDiocese.pdf)
  5. ^ Howard, Joseph Jackson "The Valuation of Ireland" p. 112