Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet, of Sudbourne Hall in Suffolk, Hertford House in London, of Antrim Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, of 2 Rue Laffitte, Paris, and of the Château de Bagatelle in Paris, was a British art collector and Francophile. Based on the Return of Owners of Land, 1873 he was the 24th richest man in the United Kingdom and the 73rd largest landowner, holding in total 72,307 acres, with a total annual value of £86,737. In addition he had valuable property in Paris and one of the greatest private art collections in the world, part of which, now known as the Wallace Collection, was donated to the UK Government by his widow, in accordance with his wishes.
Sir Richard Wallace
Wallace House, Lisburn, built by Wallace as his residence, and for his son, but little used
The Wallace Memorial, Castle Park, Lisburn, erected in 1892
Sudbourne Hall photographed circa 1900, as built in 1784 by Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, to the design of the architect James Wyatt. Demolished in 1953.
Sudbourne is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, England, located approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of Orford.
All Saints' Church, Sudbourne
Monument and kneeling effigy of Sir Michael Stanhope, All Saints' Church Sudbourne
Sudbourne Hall photographed circa 1900, as built in 1784 by Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, to the design of the architect James Wyatt. Before the remodelling commissioned by the Clark family between 1904 and 1918
Sudbourne Hall as remodelled by Kenneth Mackenzie Clark between 1904 and 1918, to the design of Fryer