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SIR HENRY WALLOP (c. 1540-1599)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 287 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:HENRY See also:WALLOP (c. 1540-1599)  , See also:English statesman, was the eldest son of See also:Sir See also:Oliver See also:Wallop (d . 1566), of Farleigh Wallop, See also:Hampshire . Having inherited the estates of his See also:father and of his See also:uncle, Sir See also:John Wallop (q.v.), he was knighted in 1569 and was chosen member of See also:parliament for See also:Southampton in 1572 . His connexion with See also:Ireland, where the See also:quarter See also:part of his public See also:life was passed, began in 1579, when he was appointed See also:vice-treasurer of that See also:country; this position was a very thankless and difficult one, and Wallop appears to have undertaken it very unwillingly . However, he reached See also:Dublin and was soon immersed in the troubles caused by the See also:rebellion of Gerald See also:Fitzgerald, See also:earl of See also:Desmond, finding, in his own words, it was " easier to talk at See also:home of Irish See also:wars than to be in them." In See also:July 1582 he and See also:Adam See also:Loftus, See also:archbishop of Dublin, were appointed lords justices, and they were responsible for the See also:government of Ireland for just two years, after which they were succeeded by Sir John See also:Perrot . Sir See also:Henry continued to fill the See also:office of vice-treasurer, and at See also:Enniscorthy, where he had secured a See also:lease of lands, he set up a See also:colony of Englishmen and opened up a See also:trade with See also:Madeira . As a member of the Irish See also:council he quarrelled with Perrot, and then from 1589 to 1595 he was in See also:England, entertaining the See also:queen at Farleigh Wallop in 1591 . Having returned to Ireland he was sent to See also:Dundalk to See also:attempt to make See also:peace with See also:Hugh O'See also:Neill, earl of See also:Tyrone, but this proved a vain errand . At length, after many entreaties, he was allowed to resign the treasurership, but before he could arrange to leave Ireland he died on the 14th of See also:April 1599 . Wallop's eldest son, Sir Henry Wallop (1568-1642), who acted as his father's See also:deputy in'Ireland, See also:left an only son, See also:Robert Wallop (1601-1667) . A member of parliament for nearly See also:forty years, and a supporter of the See also:parliamentary party, Robert was one of the See also:judges of See also:Charles I., although he did not sign the See also:death See also:warrant . He was active under the See also:Commonwealth, being a member of nearly all the See also:councils of See also:state .

At the restoration he was deprived of his estates and was imprisoned, and he died in the See also:

Tower of See also:London on the 19th of See also:November 1667 . Robert's son Henry (d . 1673) was the grandfather of John Wallop, 1st earl of See also:Portsmouth .

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