Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1841–1919)

Journalist and author. Studied at various universities, including Glasgow and Edinburgh. Doctor of laws, Heidelberg, 1867. Travelled extensively in Europe, including Russia, 1870–5; published Russia (1877). Foreign correspondent for The Times in Saint Petersburg, 1877–8; Constantinople, 1878–84. Private secretary to the viceroy of India, 1884–8. Foreign assistant editor for The Times, 1891–9. Knighted, 1887.