Thomas Henry Skeffington, 2nd Viscount Ferrard (January 1772 – 18 January 1843), styled The Honourable from 1790 until 1824, was an Irish peer and politician.
Born Thomas Henry Foster, he was the son of John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, and Margaretta Amelia Burgh, 1st Viscountess Ferrard.
[1] He entered the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1793, representing it until the Act of Union in 1801.
Ferrard sat as Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons for Drogheda[2] between 1807 and 1812 and for County Louth between 1821 and 1824.
In 1828 he succeeded his father in the barony of Oriel, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and was able to take a seat in the upper chamber of the British Parliament.