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Anthony Lefroy (1800 – 12 January 1890) was an Irish Conservative Party MP in the United Kingdom Parliament. He was born in Dublin , the eldest son of politician and jurist Thomas Langlois Lefroy , was educated at Trinity College and studied law at the King's Inns (1820) and Lincoln's Inn (1822).
He was re-elected in second place in 1835, defeated in 1837 and 1841, reseated on petition the following year, and lost his seat in 1847. He came in for Dublin University in 1858 and sat until his retirement in 1870. Lefroy died at Carrickglass in January 1890. 6 The family estates passed to his brother Thomas Paul Lefroy, who died the ...
Anthony Lefroy may refer to: Anthony Lefroy (Irish politician) (1800–1890), Irish politician, Member of Parliament for Longford. Anthony O'Grady Lefroy (1816–1897), government official in Western Australia. Category: Human name disambiguation pages.
Anthony Lefroy was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament.
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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. (In comparison, Austen passed away in 1817 at the age of 41.) During his long life, Lefroy served as chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench in Ireland and as a member of Parliament (MP) for Du...
After graduating from Dublin's Trinity College in 1795, Lefroy moved to London to study law at Lincoln’s Inn. According to the Jane Austen Centre's website: "At some point, however, it was decided that [Lefroy] should take a break. Family history maintains that long nights poring over books had weakened his constitution and his eyesight. It was cle...
Tom’s great–uncle Benjamin Langlois funded Tom’s education at Trinity College in Dublin. Benjamin saidthis about his great-nephew: “A good heart, a good mind, good sense, and as little to correcting him as ever I saw in one of his age.” In a letter dated January 9, 1796, Austen wroteto her sister Cassandra about Tom: "He is a very gentlemanlike, go...
In Becoming Jane (2007), Julian Jarrold's big-screen adaptation of Jon Hunter Spence 2003's semi-biography Becoming Jane Austen, James McAvoyportrayed Lefroy opposite Anne Hathaway as Austen. The movie deviated from the book in having Lefroy and Austen fall in love and attempt—but fail—to run away and get married. In an interview with McAvoy, The T...
If Austen and Lefroy were so well suited to each other, why didn't they end up together? The general consensus is that Austen's lack of wealth played a part. But in 1799, Lefroy married Mary Paul, who did come from money. The couple had eight children; they named their second child, and first daughter, Jane. While Austenites would love to believe t...
On March 30, 1846, Lefroy visited Williams Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, to fiddle around with the Earl’s telescope. In a letterwritten to his wife the next day, Lefroy said of the experience: Lefroy spotted Jupiter, and seemed to be in awe of the instrument. “But the genius displayed in all the contrivances for wielding this mighty monster even surp...
If you're planning a trip to Ireland and want to pay your respects to Lefroy and the role he played in the creation of Pride and Prejudice, you can visit his grave; it’s located in Dublin, at Mount Jerome Cemetery and Crematorium. Mental Floss is partnering with the Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds® “15 Pages A Day” reading initiative to make s...
A carte-de-visite portrait of the Member of Parliament Anthony Lefroy (1800-1890). The following paragraph is his obituary from the The Times, Wednesday, 15 January 1890: 'Our columns yesterday recorded the death of Mr Anthony Lefroy, of Carriglass Manor, county Longford, which happened on Sunday at his residence in Ireland; he was in the 90th year of his age. He was the eldest son of the late ...
Anthony Lefroy (1800-1890), Conservative politician; MP for Longford and Dublin University, by Camille Silvy 1861 courtesy of National Portrait Gallery NPG Ax54615. Elizabeth née Lennard (1670-1701), Countess of Meath, wife of 3rd Earl, 1701 engraving by Paul Van Somer II after Paul Mignard, photograph courtesy of National Gallery of Ireland.
