Alexander Burns Wallace

Alexander Burns Wallace CBE FRSE FRCSE (1906–1974) was a Scottish plastic surgeon.

[1] Wallace was educated at George Heriot's School and then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University, graduating with his MB ChB in 1929.

After the war he became lead surgeon in the burns and plastic surgery unit at Bangour General Hospital.

His proposers were Douglas Guthrie, Anthony Elliot Ritchie, Neil Campbell, and Sir Edmund Hirst.

[1] In 1973, he was awarded a doctorate (PhD) by the University of St Andrews for his thesis entitled “Classification of Burns A History of Development: With Comments for Today and Thoughts for the Future”.

He retired to Ceres in Fife and died there on 14 December 1974, leaving a wife, son, three daughters and three granddaughters.

1929 University of Edinburgh MB ChB graduation portrait of A.B. Wallace.
British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPS) Council at Roehampton, London, September 1952. From left: A H McIndoe, R Mowlem, J N Barron, R J V Battle, A B Wallace, J P Teidy, T P Kilner, J S Tough