Thomas Conolly was an Irish landowner.

He was the son of William James Conolly

William James Conolly

William James Conolly was an Irish politician.He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Ballyshannon at a by-election in 1727. At the general election earlier that year his uncle William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, had been elected for the seat, but chose to continue...

 of Castletown House

Castletown House

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, by his wife Lady Anne, daughter of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. In 1758 he married Lady Louisa Lennox

Lady Louisa Conolly

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, daughter of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond

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; they had no children.

He sat in the Parliament of Great Britain

Parliament of Great Britain

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 for Malmesbury

Malmesbury (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1759 to 1768 and for Chichester

Chichester (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1768 to 1780. In 1761 he was elected to the Parliament of Ireland

Parliament of Ireland

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 for Ballyshannon

Ballyshannon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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 and for County Londonderry

Londonderry County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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, sitting for the latter constituency until May 1800. On 6 April 1761 he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland

Privy Council of Ireland

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In 1802 Conolly was left Wentworth Castle

Wentworth Castle

Wentworth Castle is a stately home and estate near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. It was originally the seat of the Earls of Strafford. An older house existed on the estate, then called Stainborough, when it was purchased by Thomas Wentworth, Lord Raby , in 1711...

 by his second cousin Augusta Anne Hatfield-Kaye, sister of Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford

Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford

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. On his death Wentworth Castle was inherited by Frederick Thomas William Vernon, grandson of the 1st Earl of Strafford's daughter Harriet. Castletown House passed to his widow Lady Louisa and then to Edward Pakenham

Edward Michael Conolly

Edward Michael Conolly was an Irish Member of Parliament.He was born Edward Michael Pakenham, son of Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham by his wife Louisa, daughter of John Staples and niece of Thomas Conolly of Castletown...

, son of Conolly's sister Henrietta, being sold by William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew

William Conolly-Carew, 6th Baron Carew

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 in 1965.

In Dublin, Conolly was a member of the Kildare Street Club

Kildare Street Club

The Kildare Street Club was a gentlemen's club in Dublin, Ireland, at the heart of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy.The Club remained in Kildare Street between 1782 and 1977, when it merged with the Dublin University Club...

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