Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly

Who was Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly?

Thomas Knox, 3rd Earl of Ranfurly, styled Viscount Northland between 1840 and 1858, was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament. He was the son of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly and his wife Mary Juliana Stuart, and represented Dungannon as a Member of Parliament between 9 June 1838 and 3 February 1851, when he resigned through the position of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.