Robert Wallace (MP for Greenock)

Robert Wallace was the founder of the campaign for the Uniform Penny Post, providing cheap postage regardless of distance within the United Kingdom.

[1] He was the second son of John Wallace (1712–1805) of Cessnock, Glasgow and Kelly at Wemyss Bay in Renfrewshire, by his third wife, Janet, third daughter of Robert Colquhoun of the island of St. Christopher.

His father was a West India merchant in Glasgow, who amassed a large fortune and became proprietor of some major estates.

After repeated applications to parliament he succeeded in having a Royal Commission appointed in 1836 to report on the state of the posting department.

[2] He married Margaret, daughter of Sir William Forbes of Craigievar 5th baronet, but left no issue.