Charles Townshend Waller

Charles Townshend Waller (c.1780–1830), Reverend and Knight, 3rd Baronet was a member of the baronetage of Ireland in the late eighteenth century.

He was born in Lisbrain, Tipperary around 1780[1][2] to Robert William Waller (1738–1780) and Catherine Moore (born 1746).[3] His chief residence was Writhlington House, near Bath, England.[1][4] Waller inherited the baronetcy in 1826 on the death of his brother.[1] He was already rector of Sedgehill in Wiltshire.[5]

Waller was closely involved with the Irish Land question, and was concerned for treating farmers – little more than peasants at the time – fairly, and establishing means by which they could purchase their own land instead of holding it in fee simple as they did.[6] In 1827 he composed a pamphlet for the duke of Wellington on the matter, entitled 'A Plan for the Relief of the Poor in Ireland.' Here he suggested the creation of joint-stock companies that would invest in the farmers' land and rent them living places at low rents.[7]

He died without issue on 1 June 1830, at Weymouth, England aged 59,[8] and was buried four days later in Melcombe Regis, Dorset, England;[9] his wife had died on 29 November 1827. His motto Hic fructis virtutis.[1] His heir was his nephew, Edmund Waller, 4th Baronet, who had been born in 1797.[10]