Thomas Townsend Aremberg de Moleyns, 3rd Baron Ventry (born Mullins) (January 1786 – 18 January 1868) 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...

 soldier and nobleman.

He was the son of Townsend Mullins, the second son of Thomas Mullins, 1st Baron Ventry, and his second wife Christabella. Mullins was commissioned a lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 in the 7th Regiment of Foot on 5 February 1807, and served with the regiment in the Peninsular War

Peninsular War

The Peninsular War was a war between France and the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom, and Portugal for control of the Iberian Peninsula during the Napoleonic Wars. The war began when French and Spanish armies crossed Spain and invaded Portugal in 1807. Then, in 1808, France turned on its...

. He fought at Busaco and Albuera

Battle of Albuera

The Battle of Albuera was an indecisive battle during the Peninsular War. A mixed British, Spanish and Portuguese corps engaged elements of the French Armée du Midi at the small Spanish village of Albuera, about 20 kilometres south of the frontier fortress-town of Badajoz, Spain.From...

 and was badly wounded at the latter. He purchased a captaincy

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

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 on 13 August 1811. Mullins was slightly wounded while serving with the 7th at the Battle of New Orleans

Battle of New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812. American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the...

, where his uncle, Thomas Mullins

Thomas Mullins (British Army officer)

Thomas Mullins was a British Army officer of the 44th Regiment of Foot, best known for his misconduct at the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812...

, commanded a regiment. He exchanged out of the 7th to take half-pay on 11 December 1817 and did not return to the Army.

On 18 August 1821, he married Eliza Theodora Blake, daughter of Sir John Blake, 11th Baronet and his wife Rose, Mullins' first cousin. He succeeded his uncle as Baron Ventry

Baron Ventry

Baron Ventry, of Ventry in the County of Kerry, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Sir Thomas Mullins, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of Ventry in the County of Kerry, in the Baronetage of Ireland in 1797. The Mullins family claimed descent from...

 in 1827.

On 16 February 1841 he assumed the surname of de Moleyns for himself and the other descendants of the 1st Baron Ventry. This was in token of Ventry's claim to be descended of the medieval de Moleyns family of Burnham, Norfolk

The Norfolk Burnhams

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, which, however, has never been firmly established.

Lord Ventry died in 1868 at Burnham House, the family estate. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Dayrolles.