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4 May 1869. (1869-05-04) (aged 93) 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.
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Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776-1869), Judge. Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry. Sitter in 5 portraits
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Thomas Langlois Lefroy. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. 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.
Lefroy, Thomas Langlois (1776–1869), judge and MP, was born 8 January 1776 in Limerick, eldest son of Lt.-col. Anthony Lefroy, 9th Light Dragoons, and Anne Lefroy (née Gardner). He entered TCD in November 1790 and graduated BA (1795) having won three gold medals; he later graduated LLD (1827).
