His secondary education took place at the Royal High School.
At sixteen he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh and studied a degree in civil engineering.
While Minister of St Kentigern's in Lanark he gained his PhD on Calvin's Doctrine of the Word and Sacraments.
Wallace's nephews include theologians Iain Torrance and Alan Torrance; moreover, his son-in-law George Newlands is also an academic theologian.
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