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Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 1776 – 4 May 1869) was an Irish - Huguenot politician and judge. He served as an MP for the constituency of Dublin University in 1830–1841, Privy Councillor of Ireland in 1835–1869 and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1852–1866.
- 8 January 1776
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- Thomas Lefroy was a noted politician. Thomas Lefroy was born in Limerick, Ireland, on January 8, 1776 (one year after Austen) and died on May 4, 1869, at the very-old-for-his-time age of 93.
- Lefroy met Jane Austen during a break from studying law. After graduating from Dublin's Trinity College in 1795, Lefroy moved to London to study law at Lincoln’s Inn.
- Lefroy had a good heart and was "gentlemanlike" (though he did have one flaw). Tom’s great–uncle Benjamin Langlois funded Tom’s education at Trinity College in Dublin.
- James McAvoy played Lefroy in Becoming Jane. In Becoming Jane (2007), Julian Jarrold's big-screen adaptation of Jon Hunter Spence 2003's semi-biography Becoming Jane Austen, James McAvoy portrayed Lefroy opposite Anne Hathaway as Austen.
Jul 16, 2011 · Learn about the real Tom Lefroy, an Irish politician and judge who met Jane Austen in 1796 and inspired her to write Pride and Prejudice. Discover their letters, their relationship, and the myths and facts about their flirtation.
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A biography of Thomas Langlois Lefroy, a judge and MP in Ireland, who had a youthful flirtation with Jane Austen. Learn about his career, political views, family, and legacy in this comprehensive article.
Thomas Langlois Lefroy. Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench, was born in the County of Limerick, 8th January 1776 — descended from an old Huguenot family. He entered Trinity College, 2nd November 1790, and was a member of the old College Historical Society, broken up in 1794. As auditor of the new society established ...
Learn about the life and achievements of Thomas Lefroy, the man who was said to be the model for Darcy in Jane Austen's novels. Discover his family background, education, career, and relationship with Austen in this article by a descendant of Lefroy.
At the film’s end, an older, greyer Tom Lefroy reunites with Jane Austen, who looks shockingly like George Eliot, and tells the novelist that his teenage daughter who accompanies him is named “Jane,” leading Lefroy and Austen to look meaningfully into each other’s eyes—notwithstanding that Jane Lefroy’s grandmother was Mrs. Jane ...
