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THOMAS STEELE (1788-1848)

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THOMAS
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STEELE (1788-1848)  , Irish politician and writer, a member of a
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Somerset
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family which settled in
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Ireland during the 17th
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century, was
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born on the 3rd of
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November 1788 . He was educated at Trinity
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College,
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Dublin, and at Magdalene College,
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Cambridge, and succeeded to a large
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estate in Co .
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Clare . As a volunteer he fought against the Bourbons in
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Spain in 1823, and, returning to Ireland, he became an enthusiastic worker for
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Roman
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Catholic emancipation, helping greatly to return
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Daniel O'Connell to
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parliament for Co: `Clare at the famous
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election of 1828 . It is interesting to
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note that
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Steele himself was a
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Protestant . Having ruined his
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fortune by contributing liberally to the causes in which he was interested, he died in
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London on the 15th of
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June 1848 . He wrote Notes of the
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War in Spain (1824) and some ' essays on Irish questions .

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