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 at Chatsworth. As vice-president of the Linnean Society, of which he was fellow from 1818, Dr. Wallich frequently presided over its meetings. He died in Gower Street, London, 28 April 1854.

Wallich, who received the degree of M.D. from Marischal College and University of Aberdeen in 1819, was elected fellow of the Royal Society in 1829; he was also a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. An oil portrait of him, by Lucas, is at the Linnean Society's apartments, and a lithograph was published by Maguire, in the Ipswich series. An obelisk was erected to his memory by the East India Company in the botanical garden at Calcutta; and, though his name was applied by several botanists to various genera of plants, the admitted genus Wallichia is a group of palms so named by William Roxburgh. In addition to the more important works already mentioned, Wallich is credited in the Royal Society's ‘Catalogue’ (vi. 252) with twenty-one papers, mostly botanical, contributed between 1816 and 1854 to the ‘Asiatick Researches,’ ‘Edinburgh Philosophical Journal,’ ‘Transactions of the Linnean Society,’ of the ‘Calcutta Medical and Physical Society,’ and of the ‘Agricultural Society of India,’ the ‘Journal of Botany,’ and the journals of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Horticultural Society.

His son, [q. v.] (1815–1899), graduated M.D. from Edinburgh in 1836, became a licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1837, and entered the Indian medical service in 1838. He received medals for his services in the Sutlej and Punjáb campaigns of 1842 and 1847, and was field-surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion in 1855–6. In 1860 he was attached to the Bulldog on her survey of the Atlantic bottom for the purposes of the proposed cable, and for more than twenty years he continued to study marine biology, publishing in 1860 ‘Notes on the Presence of Animal Life at Vast Depths in the Ocean,’ and in 1862 ‘The North Atlantic Sea-bed,’ and receiving the gold medal of the Linnean Society for his researches. He died on 31 March 1899 (Lancet, 8 April 1899).

[Gardeners' Chronicle, 1854, p. 284; information furnished by the late Dr. G. C. Wallich.] 

WALLINGFORD, (1547–1632). [See .]

WALLINGFORD, JOHN (d. 1258), historical writer, gives his name to a chronicle of English history existing in Cottonian MS. Julius D. vii. 6, and printed by Gale in 1691 in his ‘Historiæ Britannicæ Saxonicæ Anglo-Danicæ Scriptores XV’ (called by him vol. i., though generally described as vol. iii. of Gale and Fell's collection). From internal evidence it appears that John of Wallingford became a monk of St. Albans in 1231, was in priest's orders, served the office of infirmarer, either composed or simply copied as a scribe (scriptor) the chronicle in question, and died at Wymondham, Norfolk, a cell of St. Albans, on 14 Aug. 1258.

John of Wallingford is confused by Gale in his preface, and by Freeman (Norman Conquest, i. 344 n.), with John, called de Cella, abbot of St. Albans, who studied at Paris, where he gained the reputation of being a ‘Priscian in grammar, an Ovid in verse, and a Galen in medicine.’ He was elected abbot of St. Albans on 20 July 1195, rebuilt the west front of the abbey church, and died on 17 July 1214.

The chronicle associated with John of Wallingford's name extends from 449 to 1035, and, as published, takes up only pp. 525–50; but it is longer in manuscript, for Gale, as he says in his preface, omitted some things and abridged in other parts, specially those dealing with hagiology; his omissions are more frequent than would be gathered from his text. The author evidently used several excellent authorities, such as Bede, the Saxon priest's ‘Life of Dunstan,’ Florence of Worcester, and the like; but, though he makes some attempts at comparison and criticism, has inserted so many exaggerations and misconceptions apparently current in his own time, and has further so strangely confused the results of his reading, that his production is historically worthless. More than once he speaks of his intention to write a larger chronicle.

[Mon. Hist. Brit. Introd. p. 22, virtually repeated in Hardy's Cat. Mat. i. 625–6.] 

WALLINGFORD, RICHARD (l292?–1336), abbot of St. Albans. [See {sc|Richard}}.]

WALLINGFORD, WILLIAM (d. 1488?), abbot of St. Albans, was from youth up a monk of St. Albans. He only left the house to study at the university, probably at Oxford (Registra Mon. S. Albani, i. 130). He was an administrator rather than a recluse, and at the time of the death of Abbot John Stoke, on 14 Dec. 1451, was already archdeacon, cellarer, bursar, forester, and sub-cellarer of the abbey of St. Albans (ib. i. 5). He was a candidate for the succession when John Whethamstede [q. v.] was unanimously