Col. Thomas Waring JP

Justice of the Peace

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 (17 October 1828-12 August 1898) was an Irish barrister and Conservative Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at Westminster.

Born at his family's ancestral home, Waringstown House, Waringstown

Waringstown

Waringstown is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, two miles south-east of Lurgan. It lies within the parish of Donaghcloney, and in the barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 2,523 people. It was built during the Plantation of Ulster and is typical of...

, County Down

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 then son of Major Henry Waring JP and Frances Grace Waring (herself the daughter of the Very Rev. Holt Waring, Dean of Dromore).Waring was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1885, until his death in 1898, and served as High Sheriff of County Down (1868-1869). He was an opponent of William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

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's Home Rule policy.
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

Trematon Castle

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, Cornwall

Cornwall

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. Fanny Waring died on 13 November 1883; Thomas Waring married for a third time, at Rostrevor

Rostrevor

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, to Geraldine Stewart, of Ballyedmond, Rostrevor, Co. Down.