Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Bt.

Sir Thomas Devereux Pile, 1st Baronet (27 February 1856 – 17 January 1931) was an Irish politician, and a member of the Irish Home Rule movement.

Biography Thomas Pile was born on 2 February 1856, the son of Thomas Pile and Anne Poole. He was educated at Wesley College, Dublin. His brother was the builder James Philip Pile.

He married Caroline Nicholson on 3 May 1882, and they had four children, including Frederick Pile.

He was a member of Dublin Corporation for the Fitzwilliam ward. He held the office of Sheriff of Dublin City in 1898, and became the Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1900. He was a Protestant, and a moderate nationalist. Pile proposed that Dublin Corporation should give her an address of welcome. Nationalist members were split on the motion, and a heated debate ensued, ending with the motion being carried by 30 votes to 22. This was controversial: the nationalist papers denounced him as a traitor, Maud Gonne referred to him as a "groveling unionist fishmonger", and at the Saint Patrick's Day parade his coach was surrounded by an angry mob singing "We’ll hang Tommy Pile on a sour apple tree". He was the last titled person to be lord mayor of Dublin.

Pile died in London on 17 January 1931, at the age of 74.