Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Wallace, Edward Wilson
Parallel form(s) of name
- E. W. Wallace
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Description area
Dates of existence
1880-1941
History
Edward Wilson Wallace was a missionary to China, and Chancellor and President of Victoria University. The son of Francis Huston Wallace, Edward Wilson Wallace was born in Cobourg, Ontario, 1880, studied at Victoria University and Columbia University, and was appointed by the Methodist Church to the China mission field in 1906. He managed mission schools, taught at West China Union University, and was appointed General Secretary of the West China Educational Union in 1912 and of the China Church Educational Association in 1921. He served as Chancellor and President of Victoria University from 1929 until his death in 1941.