NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wilde, Thomas, Baron Truro, 1782-1855 NRA: Wilde Thomas (1782-1855) 1st Baron Truro Lord Chancellor DNB: Wilde, Thomas, first Baron Truro (1782-1855), lord chancellor LBT ID: LdTruro1 VIAF ID: 40825168 LOC ID: n85248031 | B/BAP: 1782-07-07 DIED: 1855-11-11 |
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English judge who made his reputation defending Queen Caroline; he was serjeant-at-law
(1824), Whig MP for Newark-on-Trent (1831-32), and lord chancellor (1850-52). | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Thomas Wilde, first baron Truro: Thomas Wilde to Henry Brougham, 8 August 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) |