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Sir Thomas Wyse KCB (24 December 1791 – 16 April 1862), an Irish politician and diplomat, belonged to a family claiming descent from a Devon squire, Andrew Wyse, who is said to have crossed over to Ireland during the reign of Henry II and obtained lands near Waterford, of which city thirty-three members of the family are said to ...
Wyse, Sir Thomas (1791–1862), traveller, politician, educational reformer, and diplomat, was born 24 December 1791 in Waterford, the first child in the family of three sons and three daughters of Thomas Wyse (d. 1835) and his wife Frances Maria, only daughter and heiress of George Bagge of Dromore, Co. Waterford.
Abroad. The Waterford man who married Napoleon Bonaparte’s niece. Politician Thomas Wyse was one of only five Catholics to win a seat in the House of Commons in 1829. Sir Thomas Wyse....
Reform liberation of the human mind ‘mixed’ education Thomas Wyse, 1791-1862 A Leading Advocate of Education Reform Tony Lyons history of Irish education. Published. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2023. X, 288 pp.
Sir Thomas Wyse. Wyse, Sir Thomas, K.C.B., author, politician, and diplomatist, was born in December 1791, at the manor of St. John, County of Waterford. He was the son of a country gentleman, and belonged to a family that traced their descent from one of the Anglo-Norman conquerors of Ireland.
Wyse, Thomas. Wyse, Thomas (1701?–70), industrialist and co-founder of the Catholic Committee, was the son of Francis Wyse (d. 1717) of the Manor of St John, Waterford, and his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Masterson of Castletown and Moneyseed, Co. Wexford.
Besides translations and contributions to magazines, Sir Thomas Wyse was the author of several works, mostly sketches of travel in Europe and the East. In 1829 he published in London, in two volumes, a valuable Historical Sketch of the Late Catholic Association of Ireland , giving an account of the agitation for Catholic Emancipation from its ...
