Wallace, Robert (1), Dd

Wallace, Robert (1), D.D.

a Scotch divine, was born in Perthshire in 1697; was educated at the University of Edinburgh; became minister of Moffat in 1723; also of Greyfriars Church, Edinburgh, in 1733, and died in 1771. He published, A Dissertation on the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times (1753): — Characteristics of the Present Political State of Great Britain (1758): — and Various Prospects of Mankind, Nature, and Providence (1761).