Albany Charles WALLIS
20th Jun 17621 -
Life History
20th Jun 1762 |
Born.1 |
3rd Aug 1762 |
Baptised in St Clement Danes.1 From the Parish Register :- |
20th Mar 1776 |
Buried in Westminster Abbey, East Cloister.2,3 "Albany Charles Wallis, a Westminster scholar, in his 14th year: in the East Cloister." |
Notes
- From the Westminster Abbey website :-
"Albany Wallis, eminent solicitor of Norfolk Street in the Strand, and his only son Albany Charles Wallis are buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. The father was buried on 10 September 1800, aged 86. He was apparently a son of James Wallis of Knaresdale in Northumberland. As a close friend of the actor David Garrick he put up the monument in the south transept where Garrick is buried. Garrick had commissioned a memorial tablet in 1777 to Albany's drowned son. This marble tablet has a shaped top enclosing a heraldic cartouche and palm leaves with a relief of books below. The Latin inscription can be translated.
"Below here was buried amidst the unfeigned tears of his fellow pupils, Albany Charles Wallis, sole hope of his most devoted father. Too greatly, alas, enthralled by the forbidden allurements of the Thames river he was carried away by its wild force and perished on the 29th day of March 1776, aged 13. Stay, young man, and contemplate his end"
Albany Charles entered Westminster School in 1770 and was a chorister at the Abbey. His mother was Elizabeth (Vaughan). Sir Joshua Reynolds painted his portrait."4
Sources
- 1. Westminster Baptisms Transcription - Albany Charles Wallis - 1762
- 2. Middlesex, England, Extracted Parish Records - Albany Charles Wallis
- 3. Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St Peter, Westminster
- London, Harleian Society, 1876
- 4. Westminster Abbey Website - Albany Wallis & Albany Charles Wallis