William Greenell Wallace
1871–1951
Engineer. Son of Alfred Russel Wallace and his wife, Annie. Engineering apprentice at J. H. Holmes & Co. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Worked at Houston Thomson, an electrical engineering firm in Newcastle and Rugby. Associate, Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1894. Travelled, worked, and collected for a time in the United States.
Sources
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–95 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 7 September 2019)
Raby 2001, pp. 210, 263, 271
UK, Electrical Engineer membership forms, 1871–1901 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 7 September 2019)
Bibliography
Raby, Peter. 2001. Alfred Russel Wallace: a life. London: Chatto & Windus.
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