Sir Thomas Wyse (24 December 1791 – 16 April 1862), an Irish politician and diplomat, belonged to a family claiming descent from a Devon Squire, Andrew Wyse, who is said to have crossed over to Ireland during the reign of Henry II and obtained lands near Waterford, of which city thirty-three members of the family are said to have been Mayors or other municipal officers: one, John Wyse, was Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in the 1490s. Wikipedia