Tomás O'Gorman

Tomás O'Gorman (1760-?) was an Irish merchant and doctor. After serving France as a member of the Irish brigades, he settled in Buenos Aires with his wife Marie Anne Périchon de Vandeuil.

Biography
O'Gorman was born in Ennis, County Clare, grandson of Thomas Gorman and Mary Baria, belonging to a traditional Irish family. Being very young he moved to France to serve to the army of king Louis XVI. In 1797 he arrived in Montevideo from Mauritius, accompanied by his family. Later he settled in the city of Buenos Aires where his uncle, the Director of the Protomedicato del Río de la Plata, Don Miguel O'Gorman lived.

Gorman had an outstanding performance as a merchant, in 1799 introduced from the United States the first Stagecoach in the Argentine territory. He was accused by the viceregal authorities of exercising espionage. In 1804, Gorman had arrived in the city from Europe, in the company of James Florence Burke, a secret agent in the service of the British crown. He supported the English during the occupation of Buenos Aires in 1806, having to take refuge possibly in Rio de Janeiro, after the reconquest of the city.

Tomás O'Gorman was married in the Île Bourbon to Marie Anne Périchon, belonging to a distinguished French family. They were the founders of the Gorman and Périchon family in the Río de la Plata. Among his descendants are Camila O'Gorman and Eduardo O'Gorman, a parish priest of outstanding performance in Buenos Aires