Background
WALLACE, Robert Hugh was born on December 14, 1860. Son of late William Nevin Wallace, Justice of the Peace, D.L., Downpatrick.
WALLACE, Robert Hugh was born on December 14, 1860. Son of late William Nevin Wallace, Justice of the Peace, D.L., Downpatrick.
Harrow; BraKenose College. Oxford (Bachelor of Arts 1883. Master of Arts 1880).
He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1886 and admitted a solicitor of the High Court of Justice of Ireland in 1890. In November 1879 he was commissioned into the Royal South Down Militia (later the 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles). He was promoted Lieutenant in August 1880, Captain in December 1882, Major in December 1892, and Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1898.
He commanded the battalion in the Second Boer War, for which he was mentioned in despatches, appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (Central Bank), and promoted Honorary Colonel in February 1900.
He resigned his commission in January 1913, but returned to command the 19th (Reserve) Battalion of the regiment from 1915 to 1917, when he became camp commandant of Donard Lodge Camp, Newcastle, County Down. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1920 and was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the honours for the opening of the Parliament of Northern Ireland in July 1921, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".
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He was Grand Master of the Belfast Orangemen for twenty years and a prominent Freemason and member of the Ulster Unionist Council.
Spouse 1895, Caroline,daughter of J. B. Twigg.