George Hammond Whalley
Politician
1813 – 1878
Who was George Hammond Whalley?
George Hammond Whalley was a British lawyer and Liberal Party politician.
He was the eldest son of James Whalley, a merchant and banker from Gloucester, and a direct descendant of Edward Whalley, the regicide. George was educated at University College London, gaining a first class degree in Metaphysics and Rhetoric, and entered Gray's Inn in 1835, being called to the bar in 1839. He was an assistant tithe commissioner between 1836 and 1847, writing over 200 articles for the Justice of the Peace between 1838 and 1842. In 1838 and 1839 he published a pair of treatises on the Tithe Acts, which were expanded, bound and published in 1848 as The Tithe Act and the Whole of the Tithe Amendment Acts.
In 1846 he married Anne Wakeford, with whom he had a son and two daughters. During the Irish Potato Famine in 1847 he established several fisheries on the Irish west coast. In 1852 he was made High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, a Deputy Lieutenant of Denbighshire, and a captain in the Denbighshire Yeomanry.
He was chairman of the Llanidloes & Newtown Railway, the first in Montgomeryshire, from its inception in 1852 and was the first chairman of the Mid Wales Railway in 1859.
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1813
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University College London
- Died
- Oct 8, 1878
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on July 23, 2013
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