Robert Stearne Tighe
Irish landowner, 3 March 1760 - 28 May 1835
About Robert Stearne Tighe
Lived 1760 – 1835 (aged 74–75). Robert Stearne Tighe was a large estate owner and writer.
Robert Stearne Tighe (1760–1835) was an Irish writer and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Life He was the son of Richard Stearne Tighe (died December 1761), Member of the Irish House of Commons for Athy, and his wife Arabella, daughter of Sir John Osborne, 7th Baronet and Edith Proby, born 3 March 1760. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1776, and in the same year inherited the estate of his grandfather Robert Tighe.
Tighe was elected to the Royal Society in 1793. Observations and reflections on the state of Ireland (1804), with a reply Considerations on the late and present state of Ireland.
Family Tighe married: Anna Dilkes (died 1823), sister of Major-General William Thomas Dilkes.
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Irish landowner, 3 March 1760 - 28 May 1835
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Robert Stearne Tighe was born in 1760.
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Robert Stearne Tighe died in 1835.
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Robert Stearne Tighe was a large estate owner and writer.
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Robert Stearne Tighe's recorded nationality: Kingdom of Ireland.
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