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'''Thomas Wallace''' (13 April 1765 – 9 January 1847) was an Irish [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig Party]] politician who sat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)|Yarmouth]] from 1827 to 1830, from 1831 to 1835 for [[Drogheda (UK Parliament constituency)|Drogheda]] and then for [[County Carlow (UK Parliament constituency)|County Carlow]].<ref>{{rayment-hc|d|3|date=March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{rayment-hc|c|2|date=March 2012}}</ref>

Wallace was a [[Dublin]] barrister. He stood unsuccessfully for [[Drogheda (UK Parliament constituency)|Drogheda]] at the general elections in [[1818 United Kingdom general election|1818]],<ref name="walker-1801-1922">{{cite book
 | title  = Parliamentary election results in Ireland 1801–1922
 | editor = Brian M. Walker
 | publisher = [[Royal Irish Academy]]
 | location  = Dublin
 | year      = 1978
 | isbn      = 0-901714-12-7
 | pages = 209–210
}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j0AsmWc5zYwC&pg=PA674 R. G. Thorne ''The House of Commons, 1790-1820, Volume 1'' p 674]</ref> [[1820 United Kingdom general election|1820]],<ref name="walker-1801-1922" /> [[1826 United Kingdom general election|1826]]<ref name="walker-1801-1922" /> before being elected as a [[Tory (British political party)|Tory]] for [[Yarmouth (Isle of Wight) (UK Parliament constituency)|Yarmouth]] at a by-election in August 1827.<ref name="stooks-smith">{{cite book
 |last=Stooks Smith
 |first=Henry.
 |editor=Craig, F. W. S.
 |editor-link=F. W. S. Craig
 |title=[[The Parliaments of England]]
 |orig-year=1844-1850
 |edition=2nd
 |year=1973
 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services
 |location=Chichester
 |isbn=0-900178-13-2
 |page=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentsofeng0000smit/page/522 522]
 }}</ref> He held the Yarmouth seat until the [[1830 United Kingdom general election|1830 general election]],<ref>{{rayment-hc|y|date=March 2012}}</ref> when he did not defend the seat.<ref name="stooks-smith" /> He contested Drogheda again in [[1831 United Kingdom general election|1831]],<ref name="walker-1801-1922" /> before winning the seat at an unopposed by-election in October 1831.<ref>Walker, p. 50</ref>

At the [[1832 United Kingdom general election|1832 general election]] he was elected as one of the two MPs for [[County Carlow (UK Parliament constituency)|County Carlow]], and held the seat until he retired from the Commons at the [[1835 United Kingdom general election|1835 general election]].<ref>Walker, p. 256</ref>

Wallace died at the age of 81.

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 | with  = [[Walter Blackney]]
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