Bartholomew Vanhomrigh

The Celbridge Rock Bridge in the grounds of the Celbridge Abbey, purportedly the oldest extant bridge to cross the River Liffey. Bartholomew Van Homrigh, also Vanhomrigh (d. 29 December 1703) was a Polish-born Irish merchant, estate agent and politician who served as the 33rd Lord Mayor of Dublin and twice MP for Londonderry City in William III's Irish Parliaments. Surviving correspondence between 1691–1700 with Godert de Ginkel, the 1st Earl of Athlone, for whom Van Homrigh served as estate agent after the Williamite War in Ireland, detail later troop movements, and various legal and financial updates.

Life and mayoralty Born in Gdańsk (Danzig) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sometime before 1665, Van Homrigh came to Dublin from Amsterdam before 1685, and wrote fluent Dutch. On arriving in Dublin Van Homrigh worked as a merchant and was bestowed the Freedom of the City in 1685.

Estates and Parliament Van Homrigh represented Londonderry (Derry) in the 1692 and 1695–99 Irish Parliaments, in the later session serving on committees and backing the Tory Lord Chancellor Charles Porter when the latter was accused of corruption and favouring Catholics whilst in office.

On 29 February 1692, William III bestowed the estates of Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick and Christopher Fleming, 17th Baron Slane to the lieutenant-general and commander-in-chief of his forces in Ireland, the Dutch commander Godert de Ginkel, whose victory at the 1691 Siege of Limerick ended the War.