Thomas Lestrange

Sir Thomas Lestrange (1518 – 14 March 1590), also Le Strange, Le Straunge, or Strange, was an English official in the Presidency of Connaught and landowner during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. He was one of the seven sons of Sir Thomas Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk and Anne Vaux, daughter of

Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, and like his brothers Nicholas and Richard, the younger Thomas went to Ireland. He used his official positions to acquire lands in counties Galway, Roscommon, and Longford, Lestrange had a castle called Castlereogh near Athleague, In August 1584 John Perrot appointed him knight bachelor and member of the Privy Council of Ireland. In 1585 Lestrange was a commissioner in the Composition of Connacht and member of the Irish Parliament for County Galway, Thomas Lestrange and Margaret had two surviving daughters and no sons. and Richard — and one William Anderson.