WALL, WILLIAM: English divine; b. in the neighborhood of Sevenoaks (20 m. s.e. of London), Kent, Jan, 8,1646-47; d. at Shoreham (17 m. s.e. of London) Jan. 13, 1727-28. He was educated at Queen's College, Oxford (B.A., 1667; M.A., 1670); became vicar at Shoreham, 1674; and rector of Milton-next-Gravesend, 1708, the same year becoming chaplain to the bishop of Rochester. He is justly famed for his works on infant baptism, which include The History of Infant Baptism (2 parts, London, 1705, 3d ed., 1720, new and best ed., combining J. Gale's Reflections on Mr, Wall's Historb, and Wall's Defence, by H. Cotton, 4 vols., Oxford, 1836, 2 vols., 1882, reprinted, 1889); A Conference Between Two Men that had Doubts about Infant Baptism (London, 1706, frequently reprinted); and his Defence of the History of Infant Baptism (London, 1720; usually reprinted with Gale's work and the History). He wrote also Critical Notes (on the New Testament and the old, 3 vols., London, 1730-34).

Bibliography: T. Crosby, Hist. of the English Baptists, i. 8, 161, iii. 14, 42, 4 vols., London, 1738-40; DNB, Hz. 97.

WALLACE, ALEXANDER GILFILLAN: United Presbyterian; b. at Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pa., Mar. 2, 1829. He graduated from Jefferson College (B.A.,1847) and from Allegheny Theological Seminary; was pastor of the United Presbyterian Church at Bethel, Pa., 1854-68, at New Brighton, 1868-84, and at Sewickley, 1886-88; has been clerk of the United Presbyterian Assembly since 1868, and secretary of, the Board of Church Extension of his denomination since 1870; he was also editor of The Evangelical Repository, 1886-90, temporary professor in Allegheny Theological Seminary, 1885-87, and was editorial writer, then associate editor, and finally has been senior editor of The United Presbyterian, since 1868. He has written The Scotch. and ScotchIrish in Colonial America (1909).

WALLACE, WILLIAM: Presbyterian foreign missionary; b. at Santa F6 de Bogota, United States of Colombia, Apr. 5, 1864. . He studied at Washington and Jefferson College (B.A., 1882), Western Theological Seminary, 1884-85, and Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1885-88, having meanwhile taught in private schools, 1881-85; was pastor at St. Peter, Minn., 1888-90; missionary superintendent at Zacatecas, Mexico, 1890-92; became director of the theological seminary at Tlalpa,m, 1893; was superintendent of missions for Guerrero, Mexico, 1894-95, and for Saltillo, 1895-1907; and has been president of the Presbyterian College and Seminary at Goyoacan since 1907. He is the editor of El Esjorzador, the organ of the Mexican societies of Christian Endeavor, and stated clerk of the general synod of the Presbyterian Church in Mexico.