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William Wallace was a pupil at Fettes College, Edinburgh, and went on to study medicine, graduating from Glasgow University in 1885. After a further period studying ophthamology in Vienna, Paris and Moorfields, he returned to graduate with the MD from Glasgow in 1888. His father James was a distinguished surgeon and ambitious for him - when William went his own way there were bitter divisions. Soon after gaining his doctorate he took up the study of music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the ear had proved stronger than the eye. However, two terms at the RAM were enough for him (not surprising at twenty-eight years of age), and thereafter he was self-taught. |
