Nesbit Willoughby Wallace CMG JP (20 April 1839 − 31 July 1931) was a Canadian first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Army.
The son of Charles Hill Wallace, he was born in April 1839 at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
[1] He returned to England in 1871, having been dispatched to Bristol by the Canadian lawyer and newspaper editor Thomas Patteson to recruit W. G. Grace for an English tour of North America.
[9] Wallace was so well received at Bristol that he played two first-class matches for Gloucestershire against Surrey and Nottinghamshire in 1871.
[7] Towards the end of the Second Boer War, a regiment was formed as part of the Imperial Yeomanry in November 1901, known as the 4th County of London Imperial Yeomanry (King's Colonials), with the Prince of Wales (later King George V) as honorary colonel and Wallace coming out of retirement to act as its first commanding officer.