Thomas Wallace (13 April 1765 – 9 January 1847) was an Irish Whig Party politician who sat in the

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as a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1827 to 1830, from 1831 to 1835 for

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and then for

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. Wallace was a Dublin barrister. He stood unsuccessfully at

at the general elections in

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before being elected as a Tory for

at a by-election in August 1827. He held the Yarmouth seat until the 1830 general election, when he did not defend the seat. He contested Drogheda again in

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, before winning the seat at an unopposed by-election in October 1831. At the 1832 general election he was elected as one of the two MPs for

, and held the seat until he retired from the Commons at the 1835 general election.Walker, p. 256 Wallace died at the age of 81.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Thomas 1765 births 1847 deaths Whig (British political party) MPs for Irish constituencies UK MPs 1826–1830 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Carlow constituencies (1801–1922) Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Louth constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1832–1835