Background
Born Thomas Henry Foster, he was the son of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and Margaretta Amelia Burgh, 1st Viscountess Ferrard.
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Thomas Ferrard
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He entered the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1793, representing it until the Acting of Union in 1801. In 1811 he was appointed High Sheriff of Louth and in 1818, appointed High Sheriff of Antrim. He succeeded his mother as second Viscount Ferrard in 1824.
However, as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords.
In 1828 he succeeded his father in the barony of Oriel, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and was able to take a seat in the upper chamber of Parliament. Lord Ferrard married Harriet Skeffington, suo jure 9th Viscountess Massereene, daughter of Chichester Skeffington, 4th Earl of Massereene and 8th Viscount Massereene.
She died in 1831.
Membership
4th United Kingdom Parliament. 7th United Kingdom Parliament]
Ferrard sat as Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons for Drogheda between 1807 to 1812 and for County Louth between 1821 to 1824.
