Joseph Wallace (vegetarian) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Joseph Wallace
Portrait from Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
Born	c. 1821 Ireland
Died	1910 (aged 88–89)
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Activist for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination
Spouse(s)	Chandos Leigh Hunt ​ (m. 1878)​
Children	7

Joseph Wallace (born c. 1821 – 1910) was an Irish activist for vegetarianism, food reform and against vaccination.

Biography

Wallace originally worked in the business of malting and distilling. He was the creator of the "Wallace system", a method for the cure and eradication of disease. The system included a vegetarian diet free from fermented foods; its followers were known as "Wallaceites". Wallace patented, prepared and sold several medicines, while also providing consultations.

In 1878 he married Chandos Leigh Hunt, his former patient and pupil. In 1885, with his wife, he co-wrote Physianthropy: Or, the Home Cure and Eradication of Disease, writing under the pseudonym "Lex et Lux". In October 1905, a meeting was held at Congregational Memorial Hall, London, for octogenarian vegetarians; those in attendance included Wallace (then aged 84), C. P. Newcombe, John E. B. Mayor and Isaac Pitman.

Wallace and his wife were included in Charles W. Forward's Fifty Years of Food Reform: A History of the Vegetarian Movement in England (1898). Rollo Russell cited Wallace's dietary recommendations in the "Medical Testimony" section of his 1906 book Strength and Diet.

Wallace died in 1910. C. P. Newcombe's The Manifesto of Vegetarianism (1911) contains a memorial dedication to Wallace.