Charles Townshend Waller (c.1780–1830), Reverend and Knight, 3rd Baronet was a member of the baronetage of Ireland in the late eighteenth century.
He was born in Lisbrain, Tipperary around 1780[1][2] to Robert William Waller (1738–1780) and Catherine Moore (born 1746).[3] His chief residence was Writhlington House, near Bath, England.[1][4] Waller inherited the baronetcy in 1826 on the death of his brother.[1] He was already rector of Sedgehill in Wiltshire.[5]
Waller was closely involved with the Irish Land question, and was concerned for treating farmers – little more than peasants at the time – fairly, and establishing means by which they could purchase their own land instead of holding it in fee simple as they did.[6] In 1827 he composed a pamphlet for the duke of Wellington on the matter, entitled 'A Plan for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland.' Here he suggested the creation of joint-stock companies that would invest in the farmers' land and rent them living places at low rents.[7]
He died without issue on 1 June 1830, at Weymouth, England aged 59,[8] and was buried four days later in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England;[9] his wife had died on 29 November 1827. His motto Hic fructis virtutis.[1] His heir was his nephew, Edmund Waller, 4th Baronet, who had been born in 1797.[10]
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- ^ a b c d Thomas Robson (engraver.) (1830). The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. pp. 288–.
- ^ The Annual Peerage of the British Empire. Saunders and Otley. 1829. pp. 470–.
- ^ Bernard Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison & Sons. p. 849.
- ^ Joseph Foster (1881). The baronetage and knightage. Nichols and Sons. pp. 636–.
- ^ Bernard Burke (1910). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage. Harrison & Sons. p. 849.
- ^ Helen E. Hatton (28 May 1993). Largest Amount of Good: Quaker Relief in Ireland, 1654–1921. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. pp. 65–. ISBN 978-0-7735-0959-7.
- ^ Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1827). Report Addressed to the Marquess Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by Elizabeth Fry and Joseph John Gurney Respecting Their Late Visit to that Country. J. & A. Arch. pp. 60–.
- ^ THE LADY'S MAGAZINE. 1830. pp. 401–.
- ^ Complete Baronetage: Great Britain and Ireland, 1707-1800, and Jacobite ..
- ^ charles r. dod (1849). the peerage, baronetage, and knightage of great britain and ireland for 1849. pp. 455–.