Robert Wallace (politician, 1831)
Robert Wallace (born June 24, 1831 in Kincaple , Fifeshire , † June 6, 1899 in London ) was a British clergyman, politician and writer.
Life
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Wallace was born near St Andrews in 1831 . He attended the Geddes Institution in Culross and a secondary school in Edinburgh . He then studied theology at the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews . In April 1853, after four years, he completed his studies with a master’s degree . Here he had taken the courses together with John Campbell Smith (1828–1914).
Wallace chose a career as a clergyman and served from the summer of 1857 to the fall of 1876 for the Church of Scotland . He applies for his first pastor in Newton-on-Ayr . Three years later he moved to Trinity Church in Edinburgh. He also took up a job at St Andrews University. From December 1868, Wallace occupied the pastorate of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh and succeeded Robert Lee (1804–1868). At the same time he took over from this the leadership of the Liberal Party of the Church of Scotland. The following year the University of Glasgow earned him a Divinitatis Doctor (DD). From 1872 he was Professor of Church History at Edinburgh University. When Wallace was editor and editor of the daily newspaper The Scotsman in 1876 , he gave up his professorship. He also renounced his church offices and the permission to preach. He even got his theological doctorate (DD). Wallace also studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1983. From 1870 he wrote non-fiction books, with his last work on the philosopher and historian George Buchanan being completed and published posthumously.
Political career
In the general election of 1885 , the liberal George Joachim Goschen won the seat of the constituency of Edinburgh East . Before the elections in 1886 , he joined the newly formed Liberal Unionists , for whom he tried to defend his mandate. Wallace ran against Goschen for the Liberal Party. On election day he received 62.1% of the vote and entered the British House of Commons for the first time .
In the following general election in 1892 and 1895 he defended his mandate. On June 6, 1899, Wallace suffered a stroke while he was speaking in Parliament and died a short time later in a hospital. A total of 344 contributions are recorded by Wallace in the House of Commons. After his death, by-elections were due in the constituency of Edinburgh East. In these, George McCrae held the mandate for the Liberal Party.
Publications
- Church Tendencies in Scotland. 1870.
- The Study of Ecclesiastical History, in its Relation to Church Theology. 1873.
- Robert Wallace: George Buchanan . Completed by John Campbell Smith. Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh 1899 ( archive.org ).
literature
- William Wallace, J. Campbell Smith (Eds.): Robert Wallace, Life and Last Leaves . Sands & co., London 1903 ( archive.org - detailed biography).
- Alex Cheung: Studies in Scottish Church History . A&C Black, Edinburgh 1999, ISBN 0-567-08644-5 , pp. 269 ( books.google.de - reading sample).
Web links
- Robert Wallace 1831–1899 at Hansard (English)
- Literature by and about Robert Wallace in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Wallace: George Buchanan . Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, Edinburgh 1899, foreword by John Campbell Smith ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ a b The Constitutional Yearbook. 1909, p. 209.
- ^ Mansons ′ Shetland Almanac and Directory for 1893. T & Manson, Lerwick, 1893, p. 18.
- ^ Robert Wallace (politician, 1831) in the Hansard (English)
- ^ Liberal Year Book. 1905, p. 205.
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| SURNAME | Wallace, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British clergyman, politician and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1831 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kincaple , Fifeshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1899 |
| Place of death | London |