Thomas Taylour, Earl of Bective (11 February 1844 – 15 December 1893), styled Lord Kenlis until 1870, was an Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 Conservative

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 politician.

Bective was the son of Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort

Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort

Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort KP PC was an Irish peer, styled Lord Kenlis until 1829 and Earl of Bective from 1829 to 1870....

, by his first wife Amelia (née Thompson). Kenlis was educated at Eton

Eton College

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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. He entered Parliament for Westmorland

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 in 1871 (succeeding his father), a seat he held until 1885, when the constituency was abolished, and then represented Kendal

Kendal (UK Parliament constituency)

Kendal was a parliamentary borough centred on the town of Kendal in Westmorland. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.-History:...

 until 1892.

Lord Bective married Lady Alice Maria, daughter of Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire

Arthur Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire

Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess of Downshire KP was an Irish peer, styled Earl of Hillsborough until 1845....

, in 1867. They had two daughters:

• Lady Olivia Caroline Amelia Taylour (22 January 1869 – 26 November 1939), married Lord Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, half-brother of the 6th Duke of Portland
  William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
  William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland KG, GCVO, PC, TD, DL , known as William Cavendish-Bentinck until 1879, was a British landowner, courtier and Conservative politician...
  
  , without issue
• Lady Evelyn Alice Estelle Taylour (10 February 1873 – 16 September 1875)

Bective served as High Sheriff of Westmorland

High Sheriff of Westmorland

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 in 1868. He died December 1893, aged 49, predeceasing his father by seven months. His half-brother Geoffrey

Geoffrey Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort

Geoffrey Thomas Taylour, 4th Marquess of Headfort DL, JP, FZS , styled Lord Geoffrey Taylour until 1893 and Earl of Bective between 1893 and 1894, was a British politician and Army officer....

later succeeded in the marquessate. The Countess of Bective died in 1928.