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THOMAS STEELE (1788-1848)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 867 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:STEELE (1788-1848)  , Irish politician and writer, a member of a See also:Somerset See also:family which settled in See also:Ireland during the 17th See also:century, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:November 1788 . He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and at Magdalene College, See also:Cambridge, and succeeded to a large See also:estate in Co . See also:Clare . As a volunteer he fought against the Bourbons in See also:Spain in 1823, and, returning to Ireland, he became an enthusiastic worker for See also:Roman See also:Catholic emancipation, helping greatly to return See also:Daniel O'Connell to See also:parliament for Co: `Clare at the famous See also:election of 1828 . It is interesting to See also:note that See also:Steele himself was a See also:Protestant . Having ruined his See also:fortune by contributing liberally to the causes in which he was interested, he died in See also:London on the 15th of See also:June 1848 . He wrote Notes of the See also:War in Spain (1824) and some ' essays on Irish questions .

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