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Death Announcements 1832-1844
Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | Transcribed by | Steve Van Dulken | Comment | Death announcements from the "Gentleman's Magazine", a journal which is available on Google Books. Any deaths in India, or of deaths elsewhere where there was a mentioned link with India, are included. In a few lengthy obituaries the contents have been summarised by using square brackets. |
| Surname | Wallace | | First names | Thomas | | Rank/ occupation | Baron & MP | | Death date | 23 Feb 1844 | | Place of death | Northumberland | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | Edition | Apr 1844 | | Page number | 425 | | Detail | [Pages 425-430. At his seat, Featherstone Castle, aged 75. Son of James Wallace, barrister, by Elizabeth, heiress of Thomas Simpson, of Carleton Hall, Cumberland, esq. Born at Brampton, Cumberland, in 1769. Went to Eton and Oxford. In 1800 became a Commissioner for the Affairs of India. Actively in debates on the affairs of India. Married 16 Feb 1814 Jane Dowager Viscountess Melville, who had been the 2nd wife of Henry 1st Viscount Melville, and previously Lady Jane Hope, 6th dau. of John 2nd Earl of Hopetoun. She died without issue, 9 June 1829. The peerage of Baron Wallace is extinct. ""His male heir is John Wallace, esq. of the Madras civil service, eldest surviving son of his uncle, the late John Wallace, esq. of Golden-square, Westminster"" who received £1000 only, the estates going to Col. the Hon. James Hope, next brother to the Earl of Hopetoun, and nephew to his late lady] |
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