| 词条 | Thomas Shillington |
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Thomas Shillington (9 May 1835 – 24 January 1925) was an Irish factory owner and politician. The son of Averell Shillington (1802-1897), of a prominent Methodist family of Portadown, County Armagh, by his wife Mary (d. 1838), daughter of James Whealy,[1][2] Shillington ran the Castleisland Linen Company for many years, and in 1897 inherited the business from his father. In 1908, he floated the company for £40,000.[3] Shillington first came to prominence as the chairman of the Irish Land Committee on its formation in 1883, an organisation aiming to draw together numerous local tenant's rights bodies. At the 1885 general election, Shillington stood for the Liberal Party in North Armagh, but was not elected.[4] The following year, he became the first president of the Irish Protestant Home Rule Association, a body of Liberals aiming to show that a significant number of Protestants in Northern Ireland supported Home Rule.[5] At the 1895 general election, Shillington stood in South Tyrone as an independent nationalist, narrowly losing to the Liberal Unionist Thomas Wallace Russell.[6] In 1911, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland,[7] and then in 1923 to the recently founded Privy Council of Northern Ireland.[8] By his wife, his first cousin, Sarah, daughter of Thomas Averell Shillington (1800-1874), of Tavanagh House, Portadown,[9] he had issue including a son, Thomas Averell Shillington, who took over the Castleisland Linen Company until its liquidation in 1929.[10] His cousin (and nephew by marriage) was the politician David Graham Shillington, father of Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary Graham Shillington.[11] References1. ^Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1913, p. 1073 {{DEFAULTSORT:Shillington, Thomas}}2. ^The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley: The Story of Their Families, Kathleen Rankin, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007, pp. 203-209 3. ^Kathleen Rankin, The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley: The Story of Their Families, p.209 4. ^George Fottrell, Dublin Castle and the First Home Rule Crisis, p.146 5. ^Terence Bowman, People's Champion, p.62 6. ^Desmond Murphy, Derry, Donegal, and Modern Ulster: 1790-1921, p.202 7. ^Whitaker's Peerage (1921), p.494 8. ^"[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/96/page/132 The Belfast Gazette, 27 April 1923]", p.132 9. ^Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom, 1913, p. 1073 10. ^The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley: The Story of Their Families, Kathleen Rankin, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007, p. 209 11. ^The Linen Houses of the Bann Valley: The Story of Their Families, Kathleen Rankin, Ulster Historical Foundation, 2007, pp. 203-209 7 : 1835 births|1925 deaths|Liberal Party (UK) politicians|Members of the Privy Council of Ireland|Members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland|People from Portadown|Protestant Irish nationalists |
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