Томас Молинье (государственный деятель)

Томас Молинье, или Молинель (1531–1597), был английским государственным деятелем французского происхождения, занимавшим высокий пост в Ирландии в елизаветинскую эпоху . Он основал династию , в которой появилось несколько выдающихся членов, и стал баронетами Молинье из замка Диллон, графство Арма .

Жизнь

Молинье родился в Кале , который был последним английским владением во Франции, пока французы не захватили его в 1558 году. ^{[ 1 ]} Его отцом был Уильям Молинье, или Молинель. Оба его родителя умерли, когда он был очень молод. Единственный ребенок, его воспитывал Джон Бискин или Бришин, олдермен . городской ^{[ 1 ]} Когда французы захватили Кале в январе 1558 года, он был взят в плен, но освобожден после того, как заплатил выкуп в 500 крон. ^{[ 1 ]} (размер выкупа говорит о том, что у него были богатые родственники).

Он переехал в Брюгге и там женился на Катрин Стабеорт (или Салабоете), дочери Лодовика Стабеорта, богатого бургомистра города. ^{[ 1 ]} В 1568 году, после того как начало голландского восстания сделало жизнь в Брюгге все более опасной для иностранцев, Молинье переехал со своей семьей в Англию и добился благосклонности королевы Елизаветы I. В 1576 году он переехал в Ирландию. ^{[ 1 ]}

He received a grant of land at Swords, County Dublin, where there was a small colony of refugees from the Low Countries. He enjoyed the patronage of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin. He was appointed Chief Victualler to the Irish Army and Receiver of customs on the import of wine. In 1590 he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland. He contributed £40 (then a very substantial sum) towards the foundation of Trinity College, Dublin (1592).^[1]

In 1594 his qualifications to hold public office were questioned: it seems that his French birth and his years in Bruges had raised suspicions that he was a Roman Catholic, and as such ineligible for office. At a hearing before the Court of Exchequer (Ireland), where he was examined by the Attorney General for Ireland, Sir Charles Calthorpe, he pleaded successfully that as an Englishman and Protestant (or a "true Christian", in the idiom of the time),^[1] he was fit to hold any office to which the English Crown appointed him.

He died just after New Year 1597, and was buried in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin;^[1] his widow died the following year.

Family and descendants

He and Catherine had two sons and two daughters. ^[1] Samuel, the elder son, was Surveyor-General of the Queen's Works in Ireland, and sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Mallow in the Irish Parliament of 1613–15.^[1] Daniel (1568-1632), the younger son, became Ulster King at Arms and also sat in the Irish House of Commons in 1613-15 as member for Strabane. ^[1] Their daughter Catherine married Sir Robert Newcomen, the first of the Newcomen baronets, and had a very large family including Sir Beverley Newcomen, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Newcomen, 3rd Baronet, Sir Robert Newcomen, 4th Baronet, Judith, who married Arthur Ussher of Donnybrook, Jane, who married Sir Henry Tichborne, and Dorcas, whose third husband was the eminent English-born judge Sir Samuel Mayart.

Through Daniel, who married Jane, daughter of Sir William Ussher of Donnybrook and Isabella Loftus (and Arthur's sister) by whom he had eight children, ^[1]Thomas had a number of distinguished descendants, including:

References

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Gilbert 1894.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Гилберт, Джон Томас (1894). « Молинье, Томас (1531–1597) ». В Ли, Сидни (ред.). Словарь национальной биографии . Том. 38. Лондон: Смит, Элдер и компания.

[FOOTNOTEGilbert1894-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Gilbert 1894.

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