John Peter Richard Wallis

John Peter Richard Wallis OBE MA (10 May 1880 Liverpool - 18 September 1957 Finchingfield, Essex) was a British-born South African biographer and historian.

His father is noted as being a joiner in John Peter Richard Wallis's baptism record of 1 August 1880 at All Saints Church, Old Swan, Lancs.

[4] Wallis was appointed as professor of English language and literature at the University of Pretoria in 1917, a post he held until 1943.

In 1943 he was asked by the Southern Rhodesian government to put in order their historical archives in Salisbury.

In May 1956 he was awarded an OBE "for public services to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, especially in the editing of documents published by the Central African Archives.