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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.
Aug 6, 2019 · By Garin Pirnia | Aug 6, 2019. Though Jane Austen never admitted it herself, scholars have long speculated that Irish politician and judge Thomas Langlois Lefroy was the inspiration for Pride...
Jul 16, 2011 · Thomas Langlois Lefroy (1776-1869 ) was an Irish Politician and judge, who eventually rose to the position of Chief Justice of Ireland. He was one of 10 children born to Colonel Anthony Lefroy of Limerick and Anne Gardiner.
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).
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 ...
The Right Honourable Thomas Langlois Lefroy, three times Gold Medalist at Dublin University, Doctor of Law, Queen's Counsel, Member of Parliament for Dublin University, Privy Councillor, sometime Baron of the Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, has no enduring place in the history of our country; and his name is largely forgotten today.
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 ...
