He studied medicine, and, after gaining the degree of M.D., obtained a large practice at York.
He was much attached to theatrical amusements, and besides other pieces composed a mock tragedy entitled ‘Alexander and Statira,’ which was acted at York, Leeds, and Edinburgh.
The play possessed merit enough for success, but it sketched too plainly the foibles of prominent citizens of the town.
Through their resentment Wallis lost his entire medical practice, and was obliged to remove to London, where an expurgated edition of the play appeared in the same year.
8vo, and the third edition of George Motherby's ‘Medical Dictionary,’ London, 1791, fol.