Background
Frederic Wallis was born in Hastings, the son of Review Joseph Wallis, Master of Arts. He was educated at Street Paul"s and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Frederic Wallis was born in Hastings, the son of Review Joseph Wallis, Master of Arts. He was educated at Street Paul"s and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Saint Paul"s School.
Ordained in 1876, he became Dean of Caius in 1878 and a Lecturer in Divinity Lecturer at Cambridge. In 1895 he was elevated to the Episcopate as Bishop of Wellington, a post he held for 16 years before retirement in 1911. On his return to England he was Archdeacon of Wiltshire (1911–1912), a Canon at Salisbury Cathedral (1913 onwards) and Archdeacon of Sherborne (1916–1919).
He died on 24 June 1928, and is buried at Littlebredy.