Theodore David Wallace

Theodore David Wallace (1906 – 1 January 1952) was an Irish barrister and colonial administrator who was attorney-general of North Borneo and Tanganyika.

Early life and education Wallace was born in 1906 in Dublin, the fourth son of Octavius Wallace, a barrister of Dublin. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin, King's College Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin and was called to the Irish bar in 1929.

Career Wallace began his career practising on the Munster circuit. In 1934, he joined the Colonial Legal Service and went to Kenya as crown counsel and later acted as solicitor general. and deputy public prosecutor, handling cases on behalf of the Crown. In 1941, he sat on the committee established to investigate corruption in Singapore generally. He played a leading role in organising the civil defence of Singapore. During the Japanese occupation he was interned in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. In 1946, he returned to Malaya and sat as a judge presiding over prosecutions of Japanese kempeitai and passing the death sentence. In the following year he was appointed Attorney-General of North Borneo and gazetted as KC in 1950. In 1951, he was appointed Attorney-General of Tanganyika but died after serving only eight days in the post.