Egerton manuscripts in the British Museum (Eg. 2549, f. 93).
Waller's confession and the efforts of his relatives saved his life. After being sentenced and attainted, execution was suspended on the ground of his obedience to the proclamation, unless parliament should pass an act ordering the sentence to be carried out. At first he was imprisoned in the Tower, but on 21 Oct. 1661 a warrant was issued for his transportation to Mount Orgueil Castle, Jersey. He was still a prisoner there in 1666, and reported to be very ill (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1661–2 p. 118, 1666–7 p. 192). His death probably took place in the autumn of that year (ib. 1668–9 p. 229, Addenda 1660–70 p. 714). An anonymous portrait was No. 648 in the Loan Exhibition of 1866.
Waller left two sons, John and James, and several daughters. Of the latter, Elizabeth, who married, first, Sir Maurice Fenton, and, secondly, Sir William Petty [q. v.], was created on 31 Dec. Baroness of Shelburne, and was the mother of Charles, first lord Shelburne. Another, Bridget, married Henry Cadogan, and was the mother of William, first earl Cadogan (Noble, Lives of the Regicides, p. 300; Fitmaurice, Life of Sir William Petty, p. 153).
Waller published:
- ‘A Declaration to the Counties of Devon and Cornwall,’ 1648; reprinted in Rushworth, vii. 1027.
- ‘A Declaration of Sir Hardress Waller, Major-general of the Parliament's Forces in Ireland,’ Dublin and London, 1659–60, fol. (Edwards, Register, Ecclesiastical and Civil, p. 24).
- ‘A Letter from Sir Hardress Waller to Lieutenant-general Ludlow,’ &c., 1660, 4to; reprinted in Ludlow's ‘Memoirs,’ ed. 1894, ii. 451.
[A Life of Waller is contained in Noble's Lives of the Regicides, and a short sketch in Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, ii. 130; Burke's Landed Gentry, ‘Waller of Castletown;’ Ludlow's Memoirs, ed. 1894; other authorities mentioned in the article.]
WALLER, HORACE (1833–1896), writer on Africa, was born in London in 1833, and educated under Dr. Wadham at Brook Green. He was for some time in business in London, acquiring habits which were of much use to him in after life. In connection with the universities mission to Central Africa he went out in 1861 to the regions recently opened up by David Livingstone [q. v.] and Sir John Kirk. For a period he worked with Charles Frederick Mackenzie [q. v.], bishop of Central Africa, and was associated with Livingstone in the Zambesi and Shiré districts. Returning to England after the death of Mackenzie in 1862, he was in 1867 ordained by the bishop of Rochester to the curacy of St. John, Chatham; in 1870 he removed to the vicarage of Leytonstone, Essex, and in 1874 to the rectory of Twywell, near Thrapston, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1895. Opposition to the slave trade was one of the chief objects of his life. In 1867 he attended the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's conference in Paris, and in 1870 he became a member of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society. When in 1871 the House of Commons appointed a committee to investigate the East African slave trade, it was owing to the influence of Edmund Murge and Waller that the committee decided to recommend Sir John Kirk for the appointment of permanent political agent at Zanzibar. Ultimately a treaty between the sultan of Zanzibar and Great Britain declared the slave trade by sea to be illegal. He lived on terms of close intimacy with General Gordon, and Gordon was a frequent visitor at the rectory of Twywell.
Waller was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1864, died at East Liss, Hampshire, on 22 Feb. 1896, and was buried at Milland church on 26 Feb.
After Stanley succeeded in discovering Livingstone, Livingstone's journals were entrusted to Waller for publication. They were issued in two large volumes in 1874, entitled ‘The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 until his death.’ Waller wrote:
- ‘On some African Entanglements of Great Britain,’ 1888.
- ‘Nyassaland: Great Britain's Case against Portugal,’ 1890.
- ‘Ivory, Apes, and Peacocks: an African Contemplation,’ 1891.
- ‘Heligoland for Zanzibar, or one Island full of Free Men to two full of Slaves,’ 1893.
- ‘Health Hints for Central Africa,’ 1893, five editions.
- ‘Slaving and Slavery in our British Protectorates, Nyssaland and Zanzibar,’ 1894.
- ‘The Case of our Zanzibar Slaves: why not liberate them?’ 1896.
[Guardian, 26 Feb. 1896 p. 317, 4 March p. 352; Times, 26 Feb. 1896; Black and White, 7 March 1896, p. 292, with portrait; Geographical Journal, May 1896, pp. 558–9.]
WALLER, JOHN FRANCIS (1810–1894), author, born in Limerick in 1810, was the third son of Thomas Maunsell Waller of Finnoe House, co. Tipperary, by his wife Margaret, daughter of John Vereker. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1827, and graduated B.A. in 1831. He was called to the Irish bar in 1833, and while studying
