Lieutenant-Colonel William Wallace
(1830-1892)

Volume 1, page 33, sitting number 334.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Wallace was an officer of the Grenadier Guards.

Born on 27 May 1830 in Glasgow, William Thomas Francis Agnew Wallace was the eldest son of Sir John Alexander Agnew Wallace, Bt., and his wife Janet née Rodger. He entered the Army and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Grenadier Guards. He was at one time an Assistant Military Secretary in Australia. His father died on 10 February 1857, aged 82, and William became the 8th baronet. He lived at Lochrayn, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, the family seat in Scotland. At the time of the 1861 census he was at 130 George Street, Edinburgh.

Sir William Agnew-Wallace 'late lieutenant-colonel of the Grenadier Guards' died in London on 28 January 1892 at 5 Charles Street, St James's. He left an estate valued at £50,448. 

The Morning Post (30 January 1892) recorded 'with regret the death of Sir William Wallace, Bart., which took place on Thursday at his London residence from the effects of influenza. Sir William Thomas Francis Agnew Dunlop-Agnew-Wallace was the eldest son of the late General Sir John Wallace, the seventh baronet, and was born in 1830. He succeeded his father in 1857, and in 1859 was appointed a captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards, but retired the year following. This family is descended from Richard Wallace, whose younger brother was father of the celebrated Sir William Wallace. The family honours pass to his nephew, John Alexander, born in 1862.'