Background
Wilbraham Tollemache, was a British politician, a younger son of Lionel Tollemache, 4th Earl of Dysart.
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Wilbraham Tollemache
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Career
Tollemache originally served in the Royal Navy, and then in the British Army, retiring in 1775 as a major in the 6th Regiment of Foot. He continued to sit for Northampton until 1780, and then represented Liskeard until 1784. He inherited the earldom and the accompanying estates from his childless elder brother, Lionel, at the age of sixty in 1799.
One his first acts was to purchase the manor of Canbury from George Hardinge, bringing the area back into the family.
Wilbraham carried out a program of improvements at Ham House, including the creation of the Yellow Satin Bedroom, demolishing part of the northern wall and opening the view of the house to the river, relocating the busts of Roman Emperors to niches in the house wall, creating the ha-has and the addition of the Coade stone statues. Wilbraham was a collector of art and was an early patron of John Constable.
Tollemache was also a patron of Reynolds and Gainsborough. Dysart died without children.
All five sons of the 4th Earl were dead, and there were no grandsons.
Both families took the name of Tollemache.
Membership
Royal Society; 13th Parliament of Great Britain. 14th Parliament of Great Britain. 15th Parliament of Great Britain]
He first entered the House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Northampton in 1771.
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March 19, 1821 (aged 81)