Wilbraham Spencer Tollemache
Wilbraham Spencer Tollemache was an English soldier, JP and High Sheriff.
Early life
Wilbraham Spencer Tollemache was born on 3 October 1807. He was the younger son of Admiral John Richard Delap Halliday and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Stratford. His eldest brother was John Tollemache.Career
He served in the Rifle Brigade after the Napoleonic Wars and was appointed first lieutenant in 1828. His portrait was commissioned from Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet by William IV in 1832 and remains in the Royal collection.Tollemache was a JP for many years and was appointed High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1865.
Family
In 1844, Tollemache married Anne Tomkinson of Dorfold Hall, Acton, in Cheshire.Four of their children survived to adulthood:
- Julia Anne Elizabeth Tollemache. Julia married Charles Savile Roundell in 1874. She was an active historian and wrote a DNB entry for Anthony Browne and a history of Cowdray. Roundell inherited Dorfold Hall on Wilbraham's death and Julia, in turn, inherited when widowed in 1909.
- Henry James Tollemache
- Alice Georgina Tollemache
- Rev. Archibald Edward Tollemache.