Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective
Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective KP, PC( Ire)( 20 October 1724 – 14 February 1795) was an Irish peer and politician.
Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort
Thomas Geoffrey Charles Michael Taylour, 6th Marquess of Headfort( 20 January 1932 – 21 October 2005), styled Earl of Bective until 1960, was an Irish peer, aircraft salesman, and politician.
Arthur Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire
Arthur Wills Blundell Trumbull Sandys Roden Hill, 5th Marquess of Downshire( 24 December 1844 – 31 March 1874), was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1868.
He became Marquess of Downshire in 1868 on the death of his father.
He lived at the family seat of Easthampstead Park, within 5,000 acres in Berkshire, and Hillsborough Castle, within 115,000 acres in Hillsborough, County Down.
Arthur Hill was son to Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire( 1812 – 1868), known as the' Big Marquess', and the Hon. Caroline Frances Stapleton Cotton, the eldest daughter of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere.
Hill's siblings were Lady Alice Maria Hill( 7 November 1842 – 25 February 1928), who married Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective, and Colonel Lord Arthur William Hill( 1846 – 1931).
Hill married Georgiana Elizabeth Balfour( died 12 January 1919), on 25 July 1870, daughter of Colonel John Balfour of Balbirnie( 1811–1895) and Lady Georgiana Isabel( Campbell) Balfour( died 3 December 1884).
Their only child was Arthur Wills John Wellington Trumbull Blundell
Hill who became the 6th Marquess of Downshire.
He was a captain in the Royal South Down Regiment of Militia from 1862, a cornet and lieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards from 1866, a cornet in the West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry and Deputy Lieutenant of County Down in 1872, and the Hereditary Constable of Hillsborough Fort.
Arthur Hill and his father were instrumental in major tree planting within the park of their Hillsborough Castle.
Hercules Taylour
Major Hercules Langford Taylour( 9 September 1759 – 20 May 1790) styled
The Honourable from 1760, was an Irish soldier and politician.
He was the second son of Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective and his wife Jane Rowley, daughter of Hercules Langford Rowley and Elizabeth Rowley, 1st Viscountess Langford.
His older brother was Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort and his younger brothers were Robert Taylour and Clotworthy Rowley, 1st Baron Langford.
Taylour served in British Army and was major of the 5th Dragoon Guards( Princess Charlotte of Wales's).
In 1781, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Kells, the same constituency his father represented also, and was Member of Parliament( MP) until his death in 1790.
He never married nor sired any children.
Christopher Taylour, 7th Marquess of Headfort
Thomas Michael Ronald Christopher Taylour, 7th Marquess of Headfort( born 10 February 1959), styled Lord Kenlis until 1960 and Earl of Bective between 1960 and 2005, is an Irish peer and estate agent.
Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort
Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort DL, JP, FZS( 12 June 1878 – 29 January 1943), styled Lord Geoffrey Taylour until 1893 and Earl of Bective between 1893 and 1894, was a British politician and Army officer.
Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort
Thomas Taylour, 1st Marquess of Headfort( 18 November 1757 – 24 October 1829), styled Viscount Headford from 1766 to 1795, and known as The Earl of Bective from 1795 to 1800, was an Irish peer and politician.
Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective
Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (11 February 1844 – 15 December 1893), styled Lord Kenlis until 1870, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Bective was the son of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort, by his first wife Amelia (née Thompson).
Kenlis was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford.
He entered Parliament for Westmorland in 1871 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Kendal until 1892.
In 1884 he wrote to the Manchester-based "Women's Suffrage Journal" in support of the principle of women's suffrage, stating,
"I think that (with certain limitations) women ought to be owners of the franchise.
In fact, I think many women, especially freeholders and those who own a certain amount of property, are much more entitled to it than many men whom it is intended to enfranchise by the present Bill [passed into law as the Representation of the People Act 1884]."
Lord Bective married Lady Alice Maria, daughter of Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire, in 1867.
They had two daughters:
Bective served as High Sheriff of Westmorland in 1868.
He died December 1893, aged 49, predeceasing his father by seven months.
His half-brother Geoffrey later succeeded in the marquessate.
The Countess of Bective died in 1928.
He was a Freemason, and served from 1886 as Grand Sovereign (head of the Order) of the Masonic and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine and the Appendant Orders of the Holy Sepulchre and of St John the Evangelist, which is a masonic order open only to trinitarian Christians.
His brother Geoffrey, who succeeded to the marquessate, was also a Freemason.
Charles Epstein
Charles L. Epstein is a Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort
Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort KP PC
(I) (1 November 1822 – 22 July 1894) was an Irish peer, styled Lord Kenlis until 1829 and Earl of Bective from 1829 to 1870.
He was High Sheriff of Meath in 1844, of Cavan in 1846, and of Westmorland in 1853.
From 1852 to 1853, he was State Steward to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
In 1854, Bective succeeded his father-in-law as Member of Parliament for Westmorland, sitting as a Conservative.
He succeeded his father as Marquess of Headfort in 1870.
He also inherited his father's title of Baron Kenlis, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and so gained a seat in the House of Lords; his son Thomas replaced him in the House of Commons for Westmorland.
He was an Irish Freemason, having been initiated in Lodge
No 244 (Kells, Ireland), and served as the Provincial Grand Master of Meath from 1888 until his death and burial at Virginia, County Cavan in 1894.
He was also an English Freemason and belonged to a number of Masonic Orders.
In particular, he served as Grand Sovereign (the Head of the Order) of the Masonic and Military Order of the Red Cross of Constantine from 1866 until 1874.

Question: What nationality is Thomas Taylour, Earl Of Bective's father?
Answer: United Kingdom