Euan Wallace

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title: "Euan Wallace" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1892-births", "1941-deaths", "alumni-of-university-college,-oxford", "british-army-personnel-of-world-war-i", "british-life-guards-officers", "conservative-party-(uk)-mps-for-english-constituencies", "english-people-of-scottish-descent", "lords-of-the-admiralty", "lutyens-family", "members-of-the-privy-council-of-the-united-kingdom", "ministers-in-the-chamberlain-peacetime-government,-1937–1939", "ministers-in-the-chamberlain-wartime-government,-1939–1940", "parliamentary-secretaries-to-the-board-of-trade", "people-educated-at-eton-college", "recipients-of-the-military-cross", "secretaries-of-state-for-transport-(uk)", "uk-mps-1922–1923", "uk-mps-1924–1929", "uk-mps-1929–1931", "uk-mps-1931–1935", "uk-mps-1935–1945"] description: "British politician" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euan_Wallace" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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FieldValue
honorific_prefixCaptain The Right Honourable
nameEuan Wallace
honorific_suffixMC
imageEuan Wallace.jpg
officeMinister of Transport
term_start21 April 1939
term_end10 May 1940
primeministerNeville Chamberlain
predecessorLeslie Burgin
successorSir John Reith
office1Financial Secretary to the Treasury
term_start116 May 1938
term_end121 April 1939
primeminister1Neville Chamberlain
predecessor1John Colville
successor1Harry Crookshank
office2Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade
term_start228 May 1937
term_end216 May 1938
primeminister2Neville Chamberlain
predecessor2Leslie Burgin
successor2Ronald Cross
office3Secretary for Overseas Trade
term_start328 November 1935
term_end328 May 1937
primeminister3Stanley Baldwin
predecessor3John Colville
successor3Robert Hudson
office4Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
term_start418 June 1935
term_end428 November 1935
primeminister4Stanley Baldwin
predecessor4Harry Crookshank
successor4Geoffrey Lloyd
office5Civil Lord of the Admiralty
term_start510 November 1931
term_end57 June 1935
primeminister5Ramsay MacDonald
predecessor5George Hall
successor5Kenneth Lindsay
birth_nameDavid Euan Wallace
birth_date
birth_placeWestminster, London
death_date
death_placeGreater London
educationHarrow School
alma_materRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
partyConservative
parentsJohn Wallace
spouse{{plainlist
*{{marriageLady Idina Sackville
children5
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| children = 5 | relations = David Euan Wallace, MC PC (20 April 1892 – 9 February 1941) was a British Conservative politician who was an ally of Neville Chamberlain and briefly served as Minister of Transport during World War II.

Early life

Wallace was born on 20 April 1892. He was the son of John Wallace, of Glassingall, Dunblane, Perthshire. His paternal grandparents were David Wallace, an ironmaster, and Janet (née Weir) Wallace. His aunt, Edith Wallace, was the wife of Maj. Robert Dunbar Sinclair-Wemyss.

He was educated at Harrow before attending the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

Career

In 1911, Wallace joined the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards Reserve, gaining the rank of Captain, serving as adjutant from 1915 to 1918. He was decorated with the award of the Military Cross (MC) after being wounded four times during the Great War.

After the War, he became assistant Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C. He acted as a special Commissioner for the North-East coast and acted as aide-de-camp to the Governor General of Canada in 1920.

Political career

He was first elected to the House of Commons at Member of Parliament (MP) for Rugby from 1922 to 1923, then represented Hornsey from 1924 until his death in 1941 (when he was considered one of the richest members of the House of Commons). He served as Assistant Government Whip from 1928 to 1929; Junior Lord of the Treasury in 1929 and 1931; Civil Lord of the Admiralty from 1931 to 1934; Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1935 to 1935; Secretary for Overseas Trade from 1935 to 1937; Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1937 to 1938; Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1938 to 1939. On 21 April 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appointed Wallace the Minister of Transport.

Wallace was invested as a Privy Counsellor by King Edward VIII in June 1936, along with Lt.-Col. David John Colville (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland) and, his former brother-in-law, Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education).

Personal life

Wallace was twice married and the father of five sons, four of whom died while serving in the military. On 26 November 1913 Wallace married Lady (Myra) Idina Sackville, daughter of The 8th Earl De La Warr and Lady Muriel Agnes Brassey. Lady Idina designed Kildonan House in Barrhill, South Ayrshire with the architect James Miller in homage to her childhood home, but they separated before it was completed. Before the marriage ended in divorce in 1919, they were the parents of two sons:

On 10 May 1920, he was married to Barbara Lutyens (1898–1981), the daughter of architect Sir Edwin Lutyens and Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (a daughter of Edith Villiers and The 1st Earl of Lytton, the Viceroy of India and British Ambassador to France). Together, they were the parents of three sons:

He inherited a coal and iron fortune estimated at more than £2,000,000.

After undergoing a serious operation before Christmas 1940, Wallace died on 9 February 1941. His widow, who married Herbert Agar (the American journalist who was editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal) in 1945, lived another forty years before her death in 1981.

Descendants

Through his eldest son David, he was a grandfather of two: Laura Jacqueline Wallace (b. 1941), who married Dominic Paul Morland (a son of Sir Oscar Charles Morland GBE KCMG, of Pickering, Yorkshire and Alice Lindley) in 1963, they divorced and she married, secondly, Keith Fitchett, in 2003; and Cary Davina Wallace (b. 1942), who married David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford.

References

References

  1. "Wallace, (David) Euan (1892–1941)".
  2. (5 June 1938). "Named to Parliament Post". [[The New York Times]].
  3. (23 June 1936). "Three New Privy Councilors". [[The New York Times]].
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  5. {{Historic Environment Scotland
  6. "Major WALLACE, DAVID JOHN". [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].
  7. "Eton College Roll of Honors".
  8. "Wing Commander WALLACE, GERALD EVAN". [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].
  9. Wg Cdr Gerard Wallace was Officer Commanding, 209 (FB) Squadron, based in Kipevu, Mombasa, Kenya, 23 May-20 August 1943. He failed to return and was presumed dead when 209 Sqn Catalina IB, FP302, hit the sea during a night-time practice attack off Mombasa on 20 August 1943. Flt Lts E. R. B. Roberts (pilot) & J. M. Inglis, Fg Off V. B. Field, Flt Sgts D. W. O'Leary, E. Mallon and E. Hallas, Sgt S. Borrill, and LAC N. Edwards were also killed.
  10. (12 November 1940). "The Times".
  11. "Lieutenant WALLACE, JOHN". [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].
  12. (14 April 2017). "Who was BW?". The Churchill Project - Hillsdale College.
  13. "Flying Officer (Pilot) WALLACE, EDWARD PETER". [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]].
  14. (23 October 1965). "Elizabeth Hoyer Millar Wed in England to Billy Wallace". [[The New York Times]].
  15. Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition'', 3 volumes ([[Wilmington, Delaware]], U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1076.
  16. (12 December 2017). "Who Was Princess Margaret's Fiancé Billy Wallace?". [[Town & Country (magazine).
  17. (11 February 1941). "EUAN WALLACE, 48, BRITISH OFFICIAL Minister of Transport Under Chamberlain and World War Hero Dies in England HELD SEAT IN COMMONS Ex-Regional Commissioner for Civil Defense of London Served in Washington". [[The New York Times]].
  18. (9 June 1945). "COMDR. HERBERT AGAR TO MARRY IN LONDON". [[The New York Times]].
  19. "HERBERT AGAR DIES; AUTHOR AND EDITOR; Wrote Prolifically on the American Democratic Heritage--Won Pulitzer Prize in History A Champion of Democratic Ideals Correspondent and Columnist". The New York Times.
  20. Lutyens, Edwin. (1989). "The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his wife, Lady Emily". [[Hamish Hamilton]].
  21. "The Descendants of William The Conqueror".

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