Georg Wallace


Georg Wallace was a Norwegian politician who served one term as a member of parliament from 1851 to 1853.

Background

Wallace belonged to a well-established family of merchants in Bergen, that was descended from an early 18th-century Scottish immigrant to Norway, George Sanderson Wallace of Banff, Aberdeenshire, who became a merchant and ship's captain in Bergen in 1711. Georg Wallace was the father of Georg Wallace, a grain and fish merchant whose daughter Ellen Wallace was the maternal grandmother of Roald Dahl.

Career

He was by profession a master baker and later a merchant in his hometown.
He was elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1851, representing the constituency of Bergen. He served only one term.

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