Thomas Waring (barrister)

Col. Thomas Waring JP was an Irish barrister and Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons at Westminster.

Life

Born at his family's ancestral home, Waringstown House, Waringstown, County Down, then son of Major Henry Waring JP and Frances Grace Waring. Waring was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1885, sitting until his death in 1898. He also served as High Sheriff of Down in 1868. He was an opponent of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule policy.

Family

His first wife, Esther Smyth of Ardmore, County Londonderry, died in 1873, aged 36, Waring married, secondly, on 6 August 1874, Fanny Tucker, of Trematon Castle, Cornwall. Fanny Waring died on 13 November 1883. Waring married for a third time, at Rostrevor, to Geraldine Stewart, of Ballyedmond, Rostrevor, County Down.