Viscount Southwell
(1836-1878)
14 May 1862

Volume 6, page 308, sitting number 8103.

Thomas Arthur Joseph Southwell was born on 6 April 1836. On 29 February 1860 he succeeded as 4th Viscount Southwell of Castle Mattress, co. Limerick. 

On 24 August 1871 he married Charlotte Mary Barbara Mostyn, daughter of Sir Pyers Mostyn, 8th Baronet. 

Viscount Southwell died on 26 April 1878 at the age of 42. He was succeeded by his son, Arthur Robert Pyers Southwell (1872-1844).

An obituary appeared in the Norfolk News (4 May 1878). 'Thomas Arthur Joseph 4th Viscount Southwell, K.P., Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Leitrim, has died at Tekel's Castle, Frimley, Surrey, at the age of 42, and will be succeeded by his son, the Hon. Arthur Robert Pyers, a minor, having been born at Talacre, Rhyl, 1872. The deceased Viscount was the son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Arthur Francis Southwell, by the eldest daughter of the late Mr Thomas Dillon, of Mount Dillon, County Dublin. He succeeded his uncle in the title and estates on February 29, 1860, having formerly been a Lieutenant in the 13th Dragoons, and was appointed cornet in the Lancashire Yeomanry Cavalry the same year. In 1871 he married Charlotte Mary Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Pyers Mostyn of Talacre, Flintshire, was made a Knight of St Patrick the same year, and the following one appointed Lord Lieutenant of the County Leitrim. The family of Southwell is one of great antiquity in the county of Nottingham, and the present holder of the barony of De Clifford is descended from a younger branch. The decease of the late viscount places a ribbon of the order of St Patrick at the disposal of the Government, as well as the lord-lieutenancy of the County Leitrim.'

According to the Nottingham Evening Post (4 May 1878), 'The remains of Viscount Southwell, K.G., arrived in Dublin, from England, yesterday morning, and were buried in the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Marlborough-street. The funeral was numerously attended, and a Requiem Mass was celebrated.'

[From an album compiled by either Captain Henry Langton or his brother, Francis Langton.]