Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro

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Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (* July 7, 1782 in London ; † November 11, 1858 there ) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain .

Career

He was the second son of the lawyer Thomas Wilde (* 1758, † December 4, 1821) and Mary Anne Knight († before 1816). He attended Saint Pauls School in London and was admitted to the bar ("Attorney") in 1805. He then began to study at the Inner Temple and was admitted to the court in 1817 ("called to the bar"), after having previously worked for two years as a special pleader. In 1820 he participated as part of the defense team led by Henry Brougham in the divorce proceedings from Queen Caroline , which King George IV wanted to enforce at all costs. Wilde's cross-interrogations in this high-profile case made him widely known and the springboard to a successful legal career. He sat for Newark in Parliament from 1831 to 1832 and 1835 to 1841, and for Worcester from 1841 to 1846 . In 1839 he was elected "Solicitor General", who advised the Crown and the Cabinet on legal issues, and in 1841 he became Attorney General as the successor to Sir John Campbell. From 1846 to 1850 he was presiding judge at the "Court of Common Pleas" (one of the highest English courts for civil proceedings). In 1850 he became both Baron Truro , of Bowes in the County of Middlesex, and Lord Chancellor until the fall of the Russell Ministry in 1852.

Marriages and offspring

In his first marriage he was married to Mary Wileman since 1813. He had four children with her:

After the death of his first wife in 1840, he married Auguste Emma d'Este on August 13, 1845 , daughter of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex , who was in turn a first cousin of Queen Victoria .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Powicke, Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London 1961, p. 88
predecessor Office successor
New title created Baron Truro
1850–1855 		Charles Wilde
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Thomas, 1st Baron Truro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Truro, Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician, Member of the House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1858
Place of death London