Thomas William Westropp Bennett

Thomas Westropp Bennett (1 January 1867 – 1 February 1962)](see link for photograph) , was an Anglo Irish Catholic politician in the Irish Free State. Born on his father's estate in Ballymurphy, Co. Limerick he was the son of a British Army Officer and the first Catholic in an old Limerick family of Protestant gentry - an ancestor had sat in Grattan's Irish Parliament in the 1780s. He was educated at St Johns College in Kilkenny and privately but unusually …