William Walmisley

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Descendant: John Angus Walmisley

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Born around 1745

Children

William and Mary had five sons:

• one
• two
• Thomas Forbes Walmisley (22 May 1783-1866) born in Union Street (Renamed St. Margaret's Street), Westmister.
• four
• John Angus Walmisley (23 Nov 1791)

Death

Obituary in the Times 19 January 1819: On Sunday last, at his house, Bromley, Kent, in the 74th year of his age, William Walmisley, Esq., nearly 20 years clerk of the papers of the House of Lords, after a painful and protracted illness, which he bore with that piety and resignation which always distinguished this good man during the whole of his life.

Obituary of a different William Walmisley, the Times, April 19, 1822: On Tuesday last, aged 42, Mr. Wm. Walmisley, for 26 years a clerk in the Parliament office, leaving a widow and four young children.

Other Information

Chapter 8. The Parliamentary Office in the Early Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Biographical Notes on Clerks in the House of Lords 1800 to 1939.

21 Jul 2015 - 5th son of Richard Congreve of Congreve, Staffs and Mary Anne, ...... 1816 Anna Maria, daughter of Colonel William Lambert E.I.C.S and died 6 Feb. 1862. John Angus Walmisley was educated at Westminster and was a ...

Dictionary of National Biography:

Walmisley, Thomas Forbes (1783-1866), glee composer and organist, third son of William Walmisley, clerk of the papers to the House of Lords, was born in Union (now St. Margaret's) Street, Westminster, 22 May 1783. He, like all his brothers, was a chorister in Westminster Abbey, and he was a scholar at Westminster School from 1793 to 1798. He studied music under the Hon. John Spencer and Thomas Attwood [q.v.], the pupil of Mozart, and was assisstant organist to the Female Orphan Asylum from 1810 to 1814. ...

... Walmisley died on 23 July 1866, and was buried in the family grave at Brompton cemetary. In 1810 he married the eldest daughter of William Capon (1757-1827) [q.v.], draughtsman to the Duke of York. His eldest son, Thomas Attwood Walmisley [q.v.] whose 'Cathedral Music' he edited in 1857, predeceased him.

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