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WYSE, SIR THOMAS (1791—1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 879 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WYSE, See also:SIR See also:THOMAS (1791—1862) , Irish politician, belonged to a See also:family claiming descent from a See also:Devon See also:man, See also:Andrew Wyse, who is said to have crossed over to See also:Ireland during the reign of See also:Henry II. and obtained lands near See also:Waterford, of which See also:city See also:thirty-three members of the family are said to have been mayors or other municipal See also:officers. From the See also:Reformation the family had been consistently attached to the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church. Thomas Wyse was educated at Stonyhurst See also:College and at Trinity College, See also:Dublin, where he distinguished himself as a See also:scholar. After 1815 he passed some years in travel, visiting See also:Italy, See also:Greece, See also:Egypt and See also:Palestine. In 1821 he married Laetitia (d. 1872), daughter of Lucien Buonaparte, and after residing for a See also:time at See also:Viterbo he returned to Ireland in 1825, having by this time inherited the family estates. He now devoted his See also:great oratorical and other talents to forwarding the cause of Roman Catholic emancipation, and his See also:influence was specially marked in his own See also:county of Waterford, while his See also:standing among his associates was shown by his being chosen to write the address to the See also:people of See also:England. In 183o, after the passing of the Roman Catholic See also:Relief See also:Act, he was returned to See also:parliament for county See also:Tipperary, and he attached himself to the Liberal party and voted for the great See also:measures of the reform era. But he was specially anxious to secure some improvement in the See also:education of the Irish people, and some of his proposals were accepted by Mr E. G. See also:Stanley, afterwards 14th See also:earl of See also:Derby, and the See also:government. He was chairman of a See also:committee which inquired into the See also:condition of education in Ireland, and it was partly owing to his efforts that provincial colleges were established at See also:Cork, See also:Galway and See also:Belfast.

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work as an educational See also:pioneer also See also:bore See also:fruit in England, where the principles of See also:state See also:control and inspection, for which he had fought, were adopted, and where a training college for teachers at See also:Battersea was established on lines suggested by him. From 1835 to 1847 he was M.P. for the city of Waterford arid from 1839 to 1841 he was a See also:lord of the See also:treasury; from 1846 to 1849 he was secretary to the See also:board of control, and in 1849 he was sent as See also:British See also:minister to Greece. He was very successful in his See also:diplomacy, and he showed a great See also:interest in the educational and other See also:internal affairs of Greece. In 1857 he was made a K.C.B., and he died at See also:Athens on the 16th of See also:April 1862. \Vyse wrote See also:Historical See also:Sketch of the See also:late Catholic Association of Ireland (1829); An Excursion in the See also:Peloponnesus (1858, new ed. 1865); and Impressions of Greece (1871). His two sons shared his See also:literary tastes. They were See also:Napoleon See also:Alfred See also:Bonaparte Wyse (1822—1895); and See also:William See also:Charles Bonaparte Wyse (1826—1892), a student of the See also:dialect of See also:Provence.

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