Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace,

Wallace was born at Brampton in 1768, the son of James Wallace (1729–1783), a barrister who served as Solicitor General for England and Wales and as Attorney General to George III, and his wife, Elizabeth Simpson, the only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson Esq., of Carleton Hall, Cumberland.^[1]

He was educated at

Following the death of his father in 1783, he inherited (at age 15)

He sold the Carleton estate in 1828 to John Cowper. He then acquired Featherstone Castle near Haltwhistle, Northumberland and remodelled it in the 1830s to a Gothic style.

Wallace was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Grampound from 1790 to 1796, for Penryn from 1796 to 1802, for Hindon from 1802 to 1806, 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

He was appointed a

In 1814 Baron Wallace, aged 46, married Lady Jane Hope (1766-1829),^[citation needed] Viscountess Melville (widow of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville), daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun. Lady Jane died in June 1829. Lady Jane was then 48 and well beyond child-bearing years, even had she been able (she had no children by her first marriage).

Lord Wallace survived her by 15 years and died at Featherstone on 23 February 1844. Having no children, the barony died with him.^{[citation needed]}

Coat of arms of Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace

Crest Out of a ducal coronet Or an ostrich’s head and neck Proper holding a horseshoe in the beak. Escutcheon Gules a lion rampant Argent within a bordue compony of the second and Azure. Supporters Dexter a lion per bend dove-tailed sinister Sable and Or murally crowned and charged on the shoulder with a cross-flory Gold; sinister an antelope Proper ducally gorged and chained and charged on the shoulder as the dexter.[4]

• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [
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• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

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

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