Martin Kelso Wallace

Sir Martin Kelso Wallace (3 May 1898 - 12 February 1978) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

Wallace attended Methodist College Belfast and served in the RNVR during the First World War.[1] He worked as a company director and was elected as an Ulster Unionist Party member of the Belfast Corporation. He was elected as Lord Mayor of Belfast in 1961 and served for two years.[2] He became a knight bachelor in 1963.[3]

References

  1. "WALLACE, Sir Martin (Kelso)". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  2. John F. Harbinson, The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882-1973, p. 209
  3. "WALLACE, Sir Martin (Kelso)". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
Civic offices
Preceded by
Florence Breakie
High Sheriff of Belfast
19591960
Succeeded by
William Duncan Geddis
Preceded by
Robin Kinahan
Lord Mayor of Belfast
19611963
Succeeded by
William Jenkins


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