Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Wilde, 1st Baron Truro (1782-1855), Lord Chancellor

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.