Albany WALLIS Elizabeth VAUGHAN Mini tree diagram

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 :-
"Albany Charles Wallis of Albany and Elizabeth his Wife born June 20th last."

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."

Note in Harleian Society :-
"Only son of Albany Wallis, of the Inner Temple , Esq (see his burial 10 Sep. 1800), by Elizabeth his wife, who was buried in the Temple churchyard 3 March 1773. The Funeral Book says that he died 29 Mch., in his fourteenth year, but his monument says in his thirteenth year, and that he was drowned in the Thames, being "his loving father's only hope". The discrepancy probably arose from the fact that the monument was erected by David Garrick, without the knowledge of his father and the Funeral Book, quoting the coffin-plate, is the most likely to be correct."

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

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