| 词条 | Robert Wallace (agriculturalist) |
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Prof Robert Wallace FRSE FLS FRSGS FRPSE FHAS LLD (1853–1939) was a 19th/20th-century Scottish agriculturalist and contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica. LifeHe was born on 24 June 1853 at his ancestral home, Wallace Hall in Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, the son of Samuel Wallace, a gentleman farmer, and his wife, Susan Reid. He was educated at Tynron Parish School and then Hutton Hall Academy near Bankend.[1] He then studied at Edinburgh University graduating MA around 1872.[2] He then spent ten years farming his father's estates.[3] From 1882 to 1885 he was Professor of Agriculture at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.[4] In 1885 he returned to Edinburgh as Professor of Agriculture and Rural Economy. In 1886 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert Gray, John Wilson, Peter Guthrie Tait and Henry Alleyne Nicholson.[5] In 1900 he was living at 5 Mansfield Place in Edinburgh's New Town.[6] In 1906 he was the prime mover in the creation of the Edinburgh and East of Scotland College of Agriculture. In 1910 he was living at 21 East Claremont Street.[7] From 1915 to 1917 he conducted a correspondence on the treatment of German prisoners-of-war with President Woodrow Wilson of the United States.[8] He retired in 1922 but still had some roles: including representing Scotland in the 1923 World Dairy Congress in Washington D. C./[9] He died on 17 January 1939 aged 85.[10] Publications
References1. ^https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1465480 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Robert}}{{UK-bio-stub}}2. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 3. ^https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/0eb3192a-fc16-3f55-93a2-41c7adbd4242 4. ^http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/2013/07/15/professor-robert-wallace-1853-1939-scientific-agriculture-and-rural-economy-university-of-edinburgh/ 5. ^{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=978-0-902198-84-5|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}} 6. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1900 7. ^Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910 8. ^https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/0eb3192a-fc16-3f55-93a2-41c7adbd4242 9. ^http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/files/2013/07/professor-robert-wallace-in-dc.jpg 10. ^http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/2013/07/15/professor-robert-wallace-1853-1939-scientific-agriculture-and-rural-economy-university-of-edinburgh/ 11. ^https://archive.org/details/farmlivestockof00wall/page/n8 5 : 1853 births|1939 deaths|People from Dumfries and Galloway|Alumni of the University of Edinburgh|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |
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