Thomas Wise of Hillbank

???? - 1819


Biography

Slave-owner in Jamaica, returning to Scotland and buying the Hillbank estate in Forfarshire. Three of his sons became East India Co. men, one of them Thomas Alexander Wise (1802-1889) a notable benefactor of the University College Dundee, to which he gave his paintings and objets: the BL also also a series of drawing of Tibet owned by Thomas Alexander Wise sometimes described as the 'Wise Collection'. Thomas Wise Place in Dundee is presumably named after the elder Thomas Wise.

  1. [25/01/1819]. At Hillbank, near Dundee, Thomas Wise, Esq. of Hillbank, late of Claremont, in the island of Jamaica.

Sources

http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/07/the-wise-collection-acquiring-knowledge-on-tibet-in-the-late-1850s.html [accessed 17/08/2017].

  1. Scots Magazine Vol. 83 (1819) p. 286

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?
Spouse
Anne Chalmers
Children
William; Thomas Alexander; Patrick

Associated Estates (1)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1793 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner

Legacies Summary

Cultural (1)

Paintings
Portrait of Thomas Wise of Hillbank attributed to Henry Raeburn, mid to late 1780s.... 
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Addresses (1)

Hillbank, Dundee, Angus, Scotland, Scotland