Charles Baring Wall

Charles Baring Wall (1795 – 14 October 1853) was at various times the Member of Parliament for Guildford, Wareham, Weymouth and Salisbury.[1][2] Wall was initially a Conservative but shifted to the Whigs as an MP for Guildford. He then belonged to the Peelite faction, and died while MP for Salisbury.

He was the son of the banker Charles Wall and the religious enthusiast Harriet Baring.[3] His maternal grandfather was Francis Baring, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.[4][5]

Wall did not marry.[4] In 1833, he was placed on trial for an indecent assault on John Palmer, a police constable.[6] Wall was acquitted, and Palmer forced to resign, one newspaper subsequently printing: "a man in an inferior station in life, is a ruined man, if he dare to accuse one of higher degree of an immoral crime."[7]

His property included the Norman Court estate, straddling the Hampshire/Wiltshire border.[8]

  1. ^ The House of Commons, as Elected to the Fourteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom, Etc. 1841. pp. 38–.
  2. ^ Grayson Carter (14 October 2015). Anglican Evangelicals: Protestant Secessions from the Via Media, c. 1800 – 1850. Wipf and Stock Publishers. pp. 110–. ISBN 978-1-4982-7837-9.
  3. ^ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/47125. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47125. Retrieved 6 February 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ a b "WALL, Charles Baring (1795-1853), of Norman Court, Hants". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  5. ^ THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY CALENDAR, 1840. 1840. pp. 290–.
  6. ^ Court Of The King's Bench, The Courier (London Courier and Evening Gazette),11 May 1833, p1.
  7. ^ Baring Wall M.P., The News (London),6 May 1833, p5
  8. ^ "West Dean". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 13 November 2020.