Thomas Hussey
Thomas Hussey
Ecclesiastic and diplomat, born Ballybogan, County Meath, Ireland , 1746; died Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland , 1803. He was educated at Salamanca and appointed chaplain to the Spanish embassy at London, 1767. Twenty-five years later, when Spain and France broke with England , he took care of the Spanish interests in England ; subsequently he was entrusted by the British with diplomatic missions in Madrid and Ireland . In 1795 he was appointed first president of Maynooth College, and shortly after was consecrated Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.