WALLIS, FREDERICK (1853-1928) was the son of the Rev. J. Wallis, vicar of St Andrew's, Stockwell, London. He was educated at St Paul's School, London (1864-72) and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1876 in the first-class classical tripos and the first-class theological tripos. He won the Evans and Scholefield prizes. Elected a fellow of his College in 1878, he was ordained priest the following year. (M.A. 1879; D.D. 1894). He was curate of St Luke's, Chesterton, Cambridge (1878); dean of Gonville and Caius (1878-91), lecturer in divinity (1878-94), and deputy to the professor of divinity (1891). He was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Salisbury (1886) and senior proctor of the University (1892-93).

Wallis was chosen as Bishop of Wellington in 1895, and consecrated in the pro-Cathedral in Wellington. He was a member of the council of Victoria University College (1898-1905) and a chaplain to the Wellington Naval Volunteers and the 1st battalion of the Wellington Rifle Regiment. He did much work in this capacity during the South African war, together with heavy episcopal duty in a rapidly expanding diocese. In 1911 he resigned the see owing to ill-health, and later was archdeacon of Wiltshire (1911-12) and of Sherborne (1916-19). Wallis married (1894) Margaret, daughter of Colonel Williams, M.P. He died on 24 Jun 1928.

Who's Who NZ., 1908; Crockford.

Reference: Volume 2, page 230

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