Sir Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro

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Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro of Bowes was educated between 1789 and 1796 at St. Paul's School, London, England.2 He was a practising Solicitor between 1805 and 1817.2 He was admitted to Inner Temple on 7 February 1817 entitled to practice as a Barrister.2 In August 1820 he was one of the 11 counsel for the trial of Queen Caroline.2 He was a practising Serjeant-at-Law on 13 May 1824.2 He held the office of King's Serjeant in 1827.2 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Newark between 1831 and 1832.2 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Newark between 1835 and 1841.2 He held the office of Solicitor-General between 2 December 1839 and July 1841.2 He was invested as a Knight on 19 February 1840.2 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Worcester between 1841 and 1846.2 He held the office of Attorney-General between 3 July 1841 and September 1841.2 He held the office of Attorney-General between 2 July 1846 and 6 July 1846.2 He held the office of Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 7 July 1846 and July 1850.2 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 30 October 1846.2 He was created 1st Baron Truro of Bowes [U.K.] on 15 July 1850.2 He held the office of Lord Chancellor between 15 July 1850 and February 1852.2

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The Right Honourable

The Lord Truro

Lord Chancellor

In office 15 July 1850 – 21 February 1852

Monarch
Victoria

Prime Minister Lord John Russell

Preceded by Lord Cottenham

Succeeded by Lord St Leonards

Personal details

Born 7 July 1782 Castle Street, London, England

Died 11 November 1858 (aged 76) Eaton Square, London, England

Nationality British

Political party Whig

Spouse(s)

Mary Wileman (m. 1813; died 1840)

Augusta d'Este

(m. 1845) 

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro PC QS (7 July 1782 – 11 November 1855), was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain between 1850 and 1852.

Contents 1 Background and education 2 Legal and political career 3 Family 4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

Background and education

Born in London, Truro was the second son of Thomas Wilde, an attorney and founder of Wilde Sapte, by his wife Mary Anne (née Knight). He was educated at St Paul's School and was admitted an attorney in 1805. He was the younger brother of Sir John Wylde. James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, was his nephew.

Legal and political career

Wilde subsequently entered the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1817, having practised for two years before as a special pleader. Retained for the defence of Queen Caroline in 1820 he distinguished himself by his cross-examination and laid the foundation of an extensive common law practice. In 1824 he was made Sergeant-at-Law, and in 1827 King's Sergeant.

He first entered parliament in the Whig interest as member for Newark (1831–1832 and 1835–1841), afterwards representing Worcester (1841–1846). He was appointed Solicitor General in 1839, being knighted in 1840,[1] and became Attorney General in succession to Sir John Campbell in 1841. In 1846 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, an office he held until 1850, when he became Lord Chancellor, and was created Baron Truro, of Bowes in the County of Middlesex.[2] He held this latter office until the fall of the Russell ministry in 1852.[3]

Family

Thomas Wilde's tomb in St Laurence's parish churchyard, Ramsgate, Kent Lord Truro married firstly Mary, widow of William Devaynes (1730–1809) and daughter of William Wileman, in 1813. They had three surviving children. After Mary's death in 1840 he married secondly Mademoiselle d'Este, Augusta Emma d'Este, daughter of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex and a first cousin of Queen Victoria, on 13 August 1845. There were no children from this marriage. Lord Truro died in London in November 1858, aged 76, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son, Charles. Lady Truro died in May 1866, aged 64.

Thomas Wilde is commemorated by a Blue plaque erected on the front of 2 Kelvin Avenue Bowes Park London N13 which reads: "Site of Bowes Manor THOMAS WILDE 1st BARON TRURO 1782 – 1855 LORD CHANCELLOR 1850 – 1852 LIVED HERE"

Wilde also lived at Truro House, Broomfield Park, Palmers Green London N13, a Grade II listed building which dates back to 1673.

Notes

1.^ "No. 19828". The London Gazette. 21 February 1840. p. 361. 2.^ "No. 21117". The London Gazette. 16 July 1850. p. 1995. 3.^ Chisholm 1911.

References[edit]

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Truro, Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

Lee, Sidney, ed. (1900). "Wilde, Thomas" . Dictionary of National Biography. 61. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Rigg, J. M.; Watkin, T. G. "Wilde, Thomas, first Baron Truro (1782–1855)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29401. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro of Bowes was born on 7 July 1782 at Castle Street, London, EnglandG.3 He was the son of Thomas Wilde and Mary Anne Knight.4 He married, firstly, Mary Wileman, daughter of William Wileman and unknown Devaynes, on 13 April 1813 at London, EnglandG.3 He married, secondly, Augusta Emma d'Este, daughter of Augustus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Sussex and Lady Augusta Murray, on 13 August 1845 at London, EnglandG.3 He died on 11 November 1855 at age 73 at Eaton Square, London, EnglandG, from heart-affection and dropsy.5 He was buried at St. Lawrence's Church, Isle of Thanet, Kent, EnglandG.5

    He was educated between 1789 and 1796 at St. Paul's School, London, EnglandG.4 He was a practising Solicitor between 1805 and 1817.4 He was admitted to Inner Temple on 7 February 1817 entitled to practise as a Barrister.4 In August 1820 he was one of the 11 counsel for the trial of Queen Caroline.4 He was a practising Serjeant-at-Law on 13 May 1824.4 He held the office of King's Serjeant in 1827.4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Newark between 1831 and 1832.4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Newark between 1835 and 1841.4 He held the office of Solicitor-General between 2 December 1839 and July 1841.4 He was appointed Knight on 19 February 1840.4 He held the office of Member of Parliament (Liberal) (M.P.) for Worcester between 1841 and 1846.4 He held the office of Attorney-General between 3 July 1841 and September 1841.4 He held the office of Attorney-General between 2 July 1846 and 6 July 1846.4 He held the office of Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas between 7 July 1846 and July 1850.4 He was appointed Privy Counsellor (P.C.) on 30 October 1846.4 He was created  1st Baron Truro of Bowes, co. Middlesex [U.K.] on 15 July 1850.4 He held the office of Lord Chancellor between 15 July 1850 and February 1852.4 

    He is said by Lord Tenterden to have had 'industry enough to succeed without talent, and talent enough to succeed without industry.' Foss wrote that 'both as Chief Justice and Chancellor he showed the most untiring patience; and the judgments he pronounced had been considered by the profession to be highly satisfactory.4' Roundell, Lord Selbourne, wrote that 'the removal of Wilde in 1850, from the Court of Common Pleas to the Woolsack, had been received with surprise, and could only be accounted for by his marriage with Miss D'Este, the Duke of Sussex's daughter. But Lord Truro, as Chancellor, took pains to do well, and was not unsuccessful; he was a very upright and honourable man, who in the earlier part of his professional career had suffered, with courage and patience, under an undeserved personal stigma; and now he made himself popular (with myself among others) by degree of hospitality and affability, to which the Chancery bar had not been much accustomed. In this he was a convert by his wife, whose manners were frank and agreeable, though she sometimes chose to remind her guests of that claim to Royal rank, by the advocacy of which, as her brother's Council, her husband—not well favoured by nature—had gained her affections.4'

Children of Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro of Bowes and Mary Wileman 1.Charles Robert Claude Wilde6 b. 1814, d. 28 Aug 1814 2.Hon. Emily Claudine Thomasine Wilde7 b. 1815, d. 8 Feb 1901 3.Charles Robert Claude Wilde, 2nd Baron Truro of Bowes6 b. 1 Nov 1816, d. 27 Mar 1891 4.Hon. Thomas Montague Carrington Wilde+6 b. 17 Oct 1818, d. 10 Mar 1878

Citations 1.[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 294. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families. 2.[S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia. 3.[S12] C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings: A Royal Genealogy, in 3 volumes (London, U.K.: Garnstone Press, 1973), volume 2, page 535. Hereinafter cited as The Book of Kings. 4.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 47. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. 5.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XII/2, page 48. 6.[S12] C. Arnold McNaughton, The Book of Kings, volume 2, page 536. 7.[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 274. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

Cecilia Letitia Underwood, 1st and last Duchess of Inverness1

F, #108522, b. circa 1785, d. 1 August 1873

Last Edited=27 Jan 2011

    Cecilia Letitia Underwood, 1st and last Duchess of Inverness was born circa 1785 at London, EnglandG.1,2 She was the daughter of Arthur Saunders Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran of the Arran Islands and Elizabeth Underwood.1 She married, firstly, Sir George Buggin, son of Barrington Buggin, on 14 May 1815 at Dover Street, London, EnglandG.1 She married, secondly, Augustus Frederick Hanover, 1st Duke of Sussex, son of George III Hanover, King of Great Britain and Sophie Charlotte Herzogin von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, circa 2 May 1831 at Great Cumberland Place, London, EnglandG. This marriage was also in contravention of the Royal Marriages Act 1772.1 She died on 1 August 1873 at Kensington Palace, Kensington, London, EnglandG, without issue.1,3 She was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, EnglandG.1 Her will was proven (by probate) on 29 August 1873, at under £25,000.4

    She was given the name of Cecilia Letitia Gore at birth.3 After her marriage, Cecilia Letitia Underwood, 1st and last Duchess of Inverness was styled as  Buggin on 14 May 1815. On 2 May 1831 her name was legally changed to Cecilia Letitia Underwood by Royal License.1,5 She was created  1st Duchess of Inverness [U.K.] on 5 April 1840, suo jure.1,6 

    On her death, the Duchy of Inverness became extinct.4

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