James Wallace (British politician)

James Wallace (1729–1783), of Carleton Hall, Cumbria, was an English barrister, Member of Parliament, Solicitor General and Attorney General.

For other politicians of this name, see James Wallace (disambiguation) § Politicians, and James Wallis (disambiguation) § Politicians.

Carleton Hall

Life

The son of Thomas Wallace, of Asholme, Northumberland, attorney-at-law, Wallace entered Lincoln's Inn and was called to the Bar in 1757. In 1770, he was elected as one of the Members of Parliament for Horsham in Sussex. In 1778, he was appointed Solicitor General for England and Wales and in 1780 Attorney General.

He died in 1783 and was buried in Exeter Cathedral.[1] On 8 January 1767 Wallace had married Elizabeth, only daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Simpson, Esquire, of Carleton Hall, Cumberland, and they had two children, his son and heir Thomas Wallace, 1st Baron Wallace who married Jean Hope, and Elizabeth (1770–1792) who died unmarried.[1]

References
  1. John Burke, Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 2, p. 1495 online at books.google.co.uk
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