Author: Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick
Biography:
WHALLEY, Thomas Sedgwick (1746-1828: ancestry.com)
No baptismal record has been found but other records indicate that he was born at Cambridge in 1746, the son of the Master of Peterhouse, John Whalley (1699-1748), regius professor of divinity, and his wife Mary (Squire) Whalley. He graduated from St. John's, Cambridge (BA 1767, MA 1774), and proceeded to ordination in the Church of England (deacon 1770, priest 1772). He was presented with the living of Hagworthingham in Lincolnshire by the bishop of Ely on condition that he never live there because the location was thought to be unhealthy; Whalley employed a curate but remained Rector until his death. From 1777 to 1826 he was also a prebendary of Wells Cathedral and in 1808 was given an honorary DD by Edinburgh University. In 1774 he married a wealthy widow, Elizabeth (Jones) Sherwood of Burrington parish, Somerset. They lived on her estate of Langford Court and in Bath, where Whalley was part of the Batheaston circle of Anne Miller (q.v.) and where they enjoyed a large social network. They lived abroad for much of the year after 1783, travelling in Europe. After the death of his first wife in 1801, Whalley married Augusta Utica Heathcote, an heiress of Wiltshire, but she died in 1805. There do not appear to have been children from either marriage. In 1812 he married Fanny Horneck, the widow of General Horneck, but he separated from her soon after, providing a generous settlement. He died on 3 Sept. 1828 at La Flèche, France, and was buried there notwithstanding a request in his very detailed will that he should be buried at Burrington with his first two wives. His journals and correspondence were published in two volumes in 1863. (ODNB 26 Jan. 2021; CCEd; ancestry.com 26 Jan. 2021; Huntingdon, Bedford, and Peterborough Gazette 27 Sept. 1828) HJ
Other Names:
- T. S. Whalley