Thomas Towneley, Burnley

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287985

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-G4-366-1

Title

Thomas Towneley, Burnley

Place

Burnley

General notes

Thomas Towneley (1878-1900), was the 2nd Lord O'Hagan and was a British peer and soldier. He was the eldest son of Thomas O'Hagan, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland in Gladstone's first two governments, and of Alice Towneley from Lancashire's prominent Towneley family, from whom he inherited considerable land holdings of some 5,300 acres (21 km2).

He was educated at Sandhurst and inherited his title at the age of seven, though never took up his seat in the House of Lords before his premature death.

From 1899, he served in South Africa during Boer War as a lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of Grenadier Guards, but died abruptly of an unknown illness (thought to have been malaria) just over a week after his 22nd birthday. As he died unmarried and without children and the title passed on to his younger brother Maurice.

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Medium

Photographic print

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

Late 19th Century

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Subjects

Place Names > Burnley

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