William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire
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The Right Honourable The Lord Wallace of Saltaire PC |
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| Lord-in-Waiting | |
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In office 2010–2015 |
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| Prime Minister | David Cameron |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
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Assumed office 1996 |
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| Born | 12 March 1941 |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Liberal Democrats |
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King's College, Cambridge Cornell University |
William John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, PC (born in Leicester, 12 March 1941), is a British academic, writer, Liberal Democrat politician and was a Lord in Waiting from 2010 to 2015.
Wallace was educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, where as a chorister he sang at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, and St Edward's School, Oxford. He went to King's College, Cambridge, in 1959, reading History (BA). As an undergraduate at Cambridge, Wallace joined all three political clubs (Conservative, Labour, and Liberal). He decided that the Liberal Party was the most attractive and, in 1961, he was elected Vice-President of the Cambridge University Liberal Club, later becoming its President.
After graduating from Cambridge Wallace travelled to the United States, where he spent three years working towards his PhD at Cornell University, finishing his thesis on the Liberal Revival of 1955–66 while in residence at Nuffield College, Oxford. During this time at Oxford, he met his future wife, Helen Sarah Rushworth, who was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club. They were married on 25 August 1968 and have two children, Harriet (born 1977) and Edward (born 1981), both of whom were, like their father, educated at Cambridge.
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