Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro ( * July 7, 1782 in London, † November 11, 1858 ibid ) was Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.

Career

He was the second son of lawyer Thomas Wilde ( * 1758, † December 4, 1821 ) and Mary Anne Knight ( † before 1816). He attended Saint Paul's School in London and in 1805 was as an attorney ( " Attorney" ) approved. Then he began to study at the Inner Temple in 1817 and admitted in court ( "called to the bar " ), after he had previously worked for two years as special defenders ( "special pleader "). In 1820 he participated as part of the defense team led by Henry Brougham in the divorce proceedings of Queen Caroline, the King George IV wanted to enforce at any price. The cross-examination of Wilde in this sensational method made ​​him widely known and was the springboard for a successful lawyer career. 1831 to 1832 and from 1835 to 1841 he sat in Parliament for Newark, from 1841 to 1846 for Worcester. In 1839 he was elected to the " Solicitor General " who advised the Crown and the Cabinet on legal issues, 1841 he was Attorney General ( " Attorney General " ) as successor to Sir John Campbell. 1846 to 1850 he was Chief Judge of the " Court of Common Pleas " ( one of the highest English courts for civil cases ). In 1850 he was both Baron Truro of Bowes in the County of Middlesex, as well as Lord Chancellor until the fall of the Russell Ministry in 1852.

After the death of his first wife, Mary Wileman in 1840 he married on August 13th, 1845 Emma Auguste d' Este, daughter of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, who in turn was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.