About Sir Thomas McClure, 1st Baronet
Lived 1806 – 1893 (aged 86). Sir Thomas McClure, 1st Baronet was a politician.
Sir Thomas McClure, 1st Baronet, (4 March 1806 – 21 January 1893) was an MP for Belfast from 1868 to 1874. MP for Londonderry County 1878–1885.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Down for 1864 and later served as vice-lieutenant of the county.
McClure was created a baronet, of Belmont, County Down, on 20 March 1874. This title became extinct on his death. Belmont, his home – bought from Lord Ranfurley – stood on the site of Campbell College.
McClure married at Dreghorn Castle, Colinton, Scotland on the 18 October 1877. He married Ellison Thorburn Macfie (1842–1906) daughter of Robert Andrew Macfie of Dreghorn, a wealthy sugar refiner.
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