Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue
Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782-1855), Lord Chancellor
- Gallery portraits
- All known portraits
- Biography and References
Lord chancellor; attorney, 1805; called to the bar, 1817; defended Queen Caroline, 1820, with distinction; king's serjeant, 1827; MP from 1831; solicitor-general, 1834; attorney-general, 1841 and 1846; chief justice of the common pleas, 1846-50; privy councillor, 1846; lord chancellor, 1850-2; initiated various chancery reforms.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.
This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.