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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. Edward Lennox Wallace

Mr. Edward Lennox Wallace, Secretary of the Mutual Benefit Building and Investment Society of Canterbury, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1842. He was educated at Blair Lodge Academy, Polmont, Stirlingshire, and brought up as a linen manufacturer and merchant in Dundee. Mr. Wallace was in partnership with his father for a period of ten years, under the style of W. Wallace and Son. He landed in Lyttelton in 1874, from the ship “Eastern Monarch,” and on arrival entered the service of Hon. W. Robinson as indoor manager at Cheviot Estate, remaining there for a period of three and a half years. Subsequently, Mr. Wallace was accountant in the office of the North Canterbury Education Board for a period of six years and a half, and received his present appointment in 1883. Mr. Wallace was married in 1876 to a daughter of Mr. F. Cottrell, of Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland, and has three sons and one daughter.