Descended from the family of Craigie, Mr Michael Wallace, a regent in the University of Glasgow, was in 1610 appointed one of the ministers of Kilmarnock.
[1] Robert Wallace graduated at the University of Glasgow in 1631, and was in 1640 admitted minister of Barnwell.
He supported the cause of the Public Resolutioners, and in 1662 was, through the influence of his cousin-german, the Earl of Glencairn, appointed Bishop of the Isles.
John, the younger son, was a captain in the army, and proprietor of the lands of Slosse; also of Riccarton-Holmes, Woodhill, and others in the parish of Riccarton.
Originally a merchant in Edinburgh, Robert afterwards held office in the customs at Cromarty and Inverness; he was, on 15 December 1724 and 21 August 1735, served heir to his aunts, Agnes and Margaret Wallace, daughters of the Bishop of the Isles.