He was born in Edinburgh in 1727 the son of Very Rev Dr Robert Wallace DD (1697-1771), and his wife, Helen Turnbull.
In 1773 he appears in the first Edinburgh Street Directory as "George Wallace, advocate" living at Scotts Close on the Cowgate.
[6] Louis de Jaucourt translated some part of the book for his article "Traite des nègres" (Slave trade) in the Encyclopédie,[6] one of the first real denunciations of the colonial project in French thought.
[7] He also published Thoughts on the Origin of Feudal Tenures and the Descent of Ancient Peerages in Scotland (1783; 2nd edit., Nature and Descent of Ancient Peerages connected with the State of Scotland, 1785), and Prospects from Hills in Fife (1796, 2nd edit.
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