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"2nd Viscount Ferrard" Thomas Skeffington Signed Free Frank Dated 1834 For Sale

Up for sale a RARE! "2nd Viscount Ferrard" Thomas Skeffington Signed Free Frank Dated 1834.

Honourable from 1790 until 1824, was an Irish peer and politician. Born

Thomas Henry Foster, he was the son of John Foster, 1st Baron

Oriel, the last Speaker of

the Irish House of Commons, and Margaretta

Amelia Burgh, 1st Viscountess Ferrard. He entered the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in

1793, representing it until the Act of Union in 1801. Ferrard sat as Member of

Parliament in the British House of Commons for Drogheda between 1807 and 1812 and for County Louth between

1821 and 1824. In 1811 he was appointed High Sheriff of Louth and

in 1818, appointed High Sheriff of Antrim. He

succeeded his mother as second Viscount Ferrard in 1824. As this was an Irish peerage it

disqualified him from sitting in the Commons for an Irish seat, but it did not

entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. In 1828 he succeeded his father in the barony

of Oriel, which was in the Peerage of the United

Kingdom, and was able to take a seat in the upper chamber of the

British Parliament. Lord Ferrard married Harriet Skeffington, suo jure

9th Viscountess Massereene, daughter of Chichester Skeffington,

4th Earl of Massereene and

8th Viscount Massereene. She died in 1831. Lord Ferrard died in January 1843

and was succeeded by his son, John,

who had already succeeded his mother as tenth Viscount Massereene.

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