Career
Vallance was the first in a long line of inspirational Rangers captains. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the club Before football, Vallance was a rower.
He is noted as been abnormally tall for the times but was only around six feet two inches.
He played at right-back for Rangers from 1874 to 1882. He left Scotland on 22 February 1882 to take a position in Calcutta.
He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever. Vallance was also capped at international level, making seven appearances for Scotland.
He was a successful restaurateur, a poet and an artist, whose paintings were displayed by the Scottish Academy.
Reference has been made to a family connection to Sir Stanley Matthews, but this proved not to be the case.