Thomas Stroud Hosford, son of Joseph Hosford, was born in 1845 in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland. He married the widow Anne Brodie Butchart (1838-1929), daughter of James Ainslie (1812-1881), on 5 October 1871, at Saint Luke's Church in Westbourne Park, Westminster, England. They had three children; Florence Ainslie Hosford (b. 1874); Edith Josephine Ainslie Hosford (b. 1876); Douglas Ainslie Hosford (1879-1969). Thomas Stroud Hosford died on 22 April 1929, at his home at 37 Richmond Hill, Richmond, Surrey, England.
The Jesuits bought Tullabeg in 1818 (dedicated it to St Stanislaus) and opened a preparatory school for boys destined to go to Clongowes Wood College, Kildare. St Stanislaus College gradually developed as an educational rival to its sister school. It merged with Clongowes Wood College in 1886. Tullabeg then became a house of Jesuit formation: novitiate (1888-1930), juniorate (1895-1911), tertianship (1911-1927) and philosophate (1930-1962). In 1962, it was decided that the students of philosophy should be sent abroad for study. Tullabeg subsequently became a retreat house and was closed in May 1991.
Provincial: 1877-1880
Superior of Tullabeg: 6 October 1880-29 June 1883
Rector of Tullabeg: 3 August 1933-16 June 1935