Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington
(1815-1862), Politician, administrator and civil servantSitter in 1 portrait
Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington; Anna Eliza Mary (née Talbot), Lady Redington
by Silli
albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s
NPG Ax46342
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Catherine Grealy
17 January 2019, 19:47
Thomas Redington was the first Catholic Under-Secretary for Ireland. He was appointed in 1846. His wife set up the first school in Clarinbridge and within a generation, there were children who could read and write for the first time.