very liberal man, was also a Privy Councillor, and a prominent politician. He took an earnest part against the Bill for the Compulsory Registration of the Catholic Priesthood; and he also irritated the Court party, by joining with other high officials, in refusing to aid the Duke of Bedford in carrying the famous Money Bill in 1757, unless he consented to forward to the King the remonstrance of the Commons against absenteeism, jobbing, and pensions. He was subsequently, however, restored to favour, and was about to be raised to the Peerage, as Viscount Clonmel, when he died, on the 23rd of October, 1760. He married Anne, daughter of but had no issue by her, who married, secondly, Terence Prendergast, Esq. Sir Thomas's eldest sister, the Countess of Meath, having no issue (as before stated), he left the Gort estates, provided he took the name of 'Prendergast' to his nephew John Smyth, son of his second sister Elizabeth Prendergast, by her second husband Charles Smyth, Esq., forty-five years M. P. for Limerick, and second son of Thomas Smyth, Bishop of Limerick.

This gentleman, during the lawsuit with O'Shaughnessy, was known as John Prendergast, and afterwards as John Prendergast-Smyth, and was subsequently raised to the Peerage of Ireland, as Baron of Kiltarton, on the 15th of May, 1810, and Viscount Gort on the 22nd of January, 1816.

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