The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

REAM OF LORD TRURO.

We have to announce the demise of Lord Truro, who,
after a protracted illness, expired, shortly after 10 o'clock
on Sun-lay night, at his house in Eaton-square. The
noble and learned lord during the last two sessions of
Parliament had been compelled to absent himself from
his place in the House of Lords, having suffered for
nearly two years from an affection of the. heart, and
latterly from dropsy. The deceased, Thomas Wilde,
Baron Truro, was eldest son of Mr. Thomas Wilde, at-
torney, of College-hill, and of Saffron Walden, Essex.
He was born in London in 1782, and was consequently
in his 73d year. The learned Peer was educated at St.
Paul's School. Ho was articled as an attorney, but af-
terwards adopted the higher branch of the legal profes-
sion, and at the age of 35 years he was, in 1817, called
to the bar at the Inner Temple. Mr. Wilde eventually
rose to considerable eminence as an advocate, and realised
a handsome fortune from his professional labours. At
Easter Term, 1824, he became a Sergeant-at-Law, and
King's Sergeant at Trinity Term, 1827. The learned
deceased entered the House of Commons in 1831, when
he was returned for the borough of Newark at the head
of the poll. At the general election the ensuing year he
was the unsuccessful candidate. He was again elected
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in 1835 and 1837, and was re-elected ▪ n December,
1839, on becoming Solicitor-General in the place of the
present Lord Chancellor. He was appointed Attorney.
General in June, 1841, in the place of Lord Campbell,
appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Si▪ r Robert Peel
coming into office on September following, Sir Thomas
Wilde had to retire with the other members of Viscount
Melbourne's Administration. Sir Thomas Wilde repre-
sented the city of Worcester from July, 1841, to July,
1846, when he again accepted the office of Attorney-
General. He had scarcely entered on the duties when
be was raised to the bench. The death of that venerated
judge, Sir Nicholas C. Tindal, the Lord Chief Justice of
the Common Pleas, occurring that month, the ChiefJUE-
ticeship was offered to Sir Thomas Wilde, which he at
once accepted, and was created a member of her Majesty's
Privy Council. In July 1850, he was made Lord Chan
cellor, and created a peer by the title of Baron Truro, of
Bower Manor, in the county of Middlesex. The noble
and learned lord filled that exalted office up to February,
1852, when the Earl of Derby succeeded to the head of
the Government. In consequence, as before men-
tioned, of impaired health, the noble and learned lord
has been unable of late to take part in the proceedings,
judicial or otherwise, in the House of Lords. The late
lord was twice married ; first, in 1813, to Miss Wilernan,
daughter of Mr. Wm. Wileman, which lady died in 1840
leaving a daughter, married to Mr. Wilde, Q.C., and
three sons ; and, secondly, in 1845, Augusta, Mdlle
D'Este, daughter of his late Royal Highness the Duke.
of Sussex, who survives his lordship. The eldest son of
the deceased peer, the Hon. Charles Robert Claude,
born in 1816, succeeds to the peerage. The late learned
lord founded a prize in 1851, in "grateful acknowledg-
ment of the benefits derived by him from his education
in St. Paul's School," investing for that purpose the
munificent sum of 1,000/. Three per Cent. Console.

Professor Wilson is to give his introductory lecture
before the University of Edinburgh on Thursday week,
his subject being "The Agriculture of the French Ex-
hibition." Professor Wilson was one of the English
jurors.