Thomas Larcom

Major-General Sir Thomas Aiskew Larcom, 1st Baronet PC FRS (24 December 1801 – 15 June 1879) was a leading official in the early Irish Ordnance Survey that started in 1824. He later became a poor law commissioner, census commissioner and finally executive head of the British administration in Ireland as under-secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, a position the government of the day was eager for him to take.

The longest-serving under-secretary (1853–1868), and a man of unusual abilities, Larcom had a distinguished career in his adopted country and acted with an impartiality that won him respect from all parties. In 1868 he was admitted to the Irish Privy Council and created a Baronet.

Bibliography

Ordnance survey of the county of Londonderry (1837)
Petty, William (1851). Larcom, Thomas Aiskew. ed. The History of the Survey of Ireland commonly called The Down Survey by Doctor William Petty A.D. 1655-6. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society. Wikisource.

References

Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

Government offices
Preceded by Thomas Drummond	Under-Secretary for Ireland 1853–1868	Succeeded by Thomas Henry Burke
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet 1868–1879	Succeeded by Charles Larcom

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