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About Thomas Burgh
Colonel Thomas de Burgh, always named in his lifetime as Thomas Burgh, was an Anglo-Irish military engineer, architect, and Member of the Parliament of Ireland who served as Surveyor General of Ireland (1700–1730) and designed a number of the large public buildings of Dublin including the old Custom House (1704–6), Trinity College Library (1712–33), Dr Steevens' Hospital (1719), the Linen Hall (1722), and the Royal Barracks.
Everything about Thomas Burgh →- Occupation
- engineer, architect, politician
- Position held
- Member of Parliament in the Parliament of Ireland, Surveyor General of Ireland, High Sheriff of Kildare
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Ireland
- Born
- 1670
- Died
- 1730