Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet

Ballynastragh House, County Wexford, home of the Esmonde family – from a drawing published 1826. Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 11th Baronet, (21 September 1862 – 15 September 1935) was an Irish Home Rule nationalist politician and author.

Politics Esmonde represented the Irish Parliamentary Party as an MP for the constituencies of South Dublin from 1885 to 1892; West Kerry from 1892 to 1900; and North Wexford from 1900 to 1918. He also sat as an independent Senator in the Oireachtas from 1922 to 1934. He was High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1887.

In July 1891, he married Alice Donovan of Tralee. Alice and Esmonde had five children: Alngelda Barbara Mary Grattan Esmonde Eithne Moira Grattan Esmonde; married her second cousin Sir Anthony Esmonde, 15th Baronet Patricia Alison Louisa Grattan Esmonde Sir Osmond Esmonde, 12th Baronet (1896–1936) John Henry Grattan Esmonde (1899–1916); killed in the Battle of Jutland

Alice died in December 1922, and in September 1924 Esmonde married Anna Frances Levins.

Esmonde was a frequent traveller and author of articles on Irish folklore and antiquities, as well as a memoir, Hunting Memories of Many Lands (1920).

In 1902 he founded the Enniscorthy Echo in co-operation with William Sears.

Honours Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.