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Thomas Wace

Profile & Legacies Summary

1775 - 1850

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Assignee of Richard Wace and Company (q.v.) and Thomas Pierrepont.

  1. 1841 census Thomas Wace independent aged 66 living Wadhurst Sussex; Will of Thomas Wace gentleman of Wadhurst Sussex proved 30/03/1850.  Thomas Wace reportedly left Hill House in Wadhurst to his nephew the Rev. Richard Henry Wace, father (1804-94) of Henry West (1836-1924), Leader Writer for the Times and Principal of Kings College London 1883-1896.

Sources

T71/895 Barbados claim nos. 16, 658, 659, 660 and 661.

  1. 1841 census online; PROB 11/2111; http://www.wadhurst.info/wadhurst/trefoil/houses.htm [accessed 15/03/2011] , unsourced, which describes Thomas Wace as a merchant of Islington; http://www.churchsociety.org/crossway/documents/Cway_044_Pollard.pdf [accessed 15/03/2011].

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish

Associated Claims (6)

Barbados 658
£38 16s 9d
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Barbados 659
£58 5s 2d
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Barbados 660
£7 15s 4d
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Barbados 661
£46 12s 2d
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Barbados 16
£38 16s 9d
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British Guiana 579 (Pln Green Field)
£11,927 0s 7d
Claimants in List E or Chancery cases (Assignee)
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Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Assignee
Richard Wace & Co.  
 
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Cultural (1)

King's College, London
King's College, London ... ...  
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His son was Principal of Kings College London...

Addresses (1)

Wadhurst, Sussex, South-east England, England
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