Background
WALLACE, Robert was born in 1853. 2nd son of Samuel Wallace, of Wallace Hall (daughter 1884), and Susan (daughter 1889), daughter of late James Reid, surgeon Royal Navy.
WALLACE, Robert was born in 1853. 2nd son of Samuel Wallace, of Wallace Hall (daughter 1884), and Susan (daughter 1889), daughter of late James Reid, surgeon Royal Navy.
Studied at University of Edinburgh.
Fellow Colonial Institute. Educational Institute Scot. Royal Physical Edinburgh, et cetera
Corporation
Member Royal Philosophical Society.GIasgow. Member Hoy. Agriculture Society of England. R. Metropolitan Society; R. Horticulture.
Society.
Farmers’ delegate to Canada in 1879, and Special Commissioner to report on the Highland Crofter Settlements in Manitoba to the Governor at Ottawa in 1893.
Examiner in Agriculture to the University of New Zealand, and to the Dick Bequest. Professor of Agriculture Royal Agricultural College Cirencester, 1882-1885.
Made agricultural investigations in Italy and India, 1887. Australia and New Zealand, 1889.
United States, 1890, 1893, 1898, 1907-1908-1909-10.
Egypt, 1891. Greece, 1891-1892. South Africa, 1895, for the Cape Governor. Canada and Mexico, 1907.
Rhodesia, 1908, for the Chartered Coy.
Tonkin (F.M.S.), Java, Japan, and Canada, 1910. Expert adviser to Victorian Governor at inter-colonial cattle-tick conference held in Sydney, 1896.
Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy in Edinburgh University since 1885, and Garton Lecturer on Colonial and Indian Agriculture since 1900.
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He worked as a barrister from 1874, and contested Wandsworth in 1885, Edinburgh West in 1886, Renfrewshire West in 1892 before being elected as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Perth at the 1895 general election.