Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

Lord Wallace

Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace, PC (1768 – 23 February 1844) was an English politician.

Background[edit]

Wallace was the son of James Wallace (1729–1783), a barrister who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and as Attorney General, by Elizabeth, only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson, Esquire, of Carleton Hall, Cumberland.

Featherstone Castle, Northumberland

He succeeded his father in 1783 to Carleton Hall, near Penrith, Cumbria, selling it in 1828 to John Cowper. He acquired Featherstone Castle near Haltwistle, Northumberland and remodelled it in the 1820s in a Gothic style.

Political career[edit]

Wallace was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Grampound from 1790 to 1796, for Penryn from 1796 to 1802, for Hindon from 1802 to 1807, for Shaftesbury from 1807 to 1812, for Weymouth from 1812 to 1813, for Cockermouth from 1813 to 1818 and again for Weymouth from 1818 to 1828. He was a member of the Board of Control from 1807-1816 (responsible for overseeing the British East India Company), and Vice-President of the Board of Trade from 1818 to 1823. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1801^[1] and ennobled as Baron Wallace, of Knaresdale in the County of Northumberland, on 2 February 1828.^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Lord Wallace married Lady Jane, daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, in 1814. Lady Jane died in June 1829. Lord Wallace survived her by 15 years and died in February 1844. The barony died with him.^[3]

References[edit]

^ "No. 15367". The London Gazette. 19 May 1801. p. 557.
^ "No. 18435". The London Gazette. 25 January 1828. p. 161.
^ thepeerage.com Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

External links[edit]

"Wallace, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Thomas Wallace

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Cocks Francis Baring	Member of Parliament for Grampound 1790–1796 With: Jeremiah Crutchley	Succeeded by Bryan Edwards Robert Sewell
Preceded by Sir Francis Basset Richard Glover	Member of Parliament for Penryn 1796–1800 With: William Meeke	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Penryn 1801–1802 With: William Meeke	Succeeded by Sir Stephen Lushington Sir John Nicholl
Preceded by James Wildman Matthew Lewis	Member of Parliament for Hindon 1802–1806 With: John Pedley	Succeeded by William Beckford Benjamin Hobhouse
Preceded by Edward Loveden Loveden Home Riggs Popham	Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury 1807–1812 With: Edward Loveden Loveden	Succeeded by Richard Bateman-Robson Hudson Gurney
Preceded by Sir John Murray, Bt Richard Steward Charles Adams Joseph Hume	Member of Parliament for Weymouth 1812–1813 With: Sir John Murray, Bt John Broadhurst Henry Trail	Succeeded by Sir John Murray, Bt Viscount Cranborne Christopher Idle Masterton Ure
Preceded by Augustus Foster Viscount Lowther	Member of Parliament for Cockermouth 1813–1818 With: Viscount Lowther 1813–1816 John Lowther 1816–1818	Succeeded by Sir John Beckett, Bt John Lowther
Preceded by Sir John Murray, Bt Adolphus Dalrymple Christopher Idle Masterton Ure	Member of Parliament for Weymouth 1818–1828 With: William Williams 1818–1826 John Gordon 1826–1828 Fowell Buxton 1818–1832 Masterton Ure 1813–1832	Succeeded by John Gordon Fowell Buxton Edward Sugden Masterton Ure
Political offices
Preceded by Hon. F. J. Robinson	Vice-President of the Board of Trade 1818–1823	Succeeded by Charles Grant
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baron Wallace 1828–1844	Extinct

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