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 Encyclopaedia Britannica and prevailed on Wallace, with Mr. Hugh Chisholm as colleague, to edit the extra volumes of the tenth edition needed to bring the work up to date. In 1901 he accompanied, as assistant private secretary, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (afterwards King George V and Queen Mary) in their tour of the British Dominions—a tour which he commemorated in a book, The Web of Empire (1902). In 1905 he acted once more as a correspondent of The Times, attending the conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.A., which produced peace between Russia and Japan.

For the last decade and a half of his life Wallace reverted to his youthful ideal, and devoted himself to persistent study, varied by occasional travel; but he published nothing further. In spite of being essentially a student he had a genius for social intercourse, and possessed friends in all European and several non-European countries, and in many walks of life—savants, artists, journalists, travellers, diplomatists, statesmen, social magnates, great ladies, courtiers, and, to a remarkable degree, royal personages. He never married and died at Lymington, Hampshire, 10 January 1919.

 WALLER, LEWIS (1860–1915), actor-manager, whose real name was, was born at Bilbao, Spain, 3 November 1860. He was the eldest son of William James Lewis, civil engineer, by his wife, Carlotta, second daughter of Thomas A. Vyse, of the Howard-Vyse family. He was educated at King's College School, London, and in Germany. Intended for a commercial career, he was employed for five years in his uncle's office in the City. As an amateur he acted for several years with dramatic societies, but subsequently he made up his mind to become a professional actor, and was fortunate enough to be engaged by John Lawrence Toole [q.v.] for Toole's Theatre, where he first appeared on 26 March 1883 in a revival of Uncle Dick's Darling. For the next twelve months he played in Toole's repertory, and then left in order to tour the provinces. He appeared at the Lyceum Theatre with Madame Modjeska on 30 March 1885 in Adrienne Lecouvreur, and then went on tour until the end of 1886. He made his first substantial success in London at the Strand Theatre on 7 February 1887 in Jack in the Box by G. R. Sims and Clement W. Scott. Subsequently he fulfilled engagements as leading juvenile with Kate Vaughan at the Opera Comique, with Mrs. Brown-Potter at the Gaiety Theatre, with (Sir) John Hare and William Hunter Kendal at the St. James's, with Rutland Barrington at the same theatre, and with Wilson Barrett at the Princess's.

On the opening of the Garrick Theatre by John Hare on 24 April 1889, Waller played as Hugh Murray in (Sir) A. W. Pinero's play The Profligate, and again in November of that year as Cavaradossi in an adaptation of La Tosca. After fulfilling engagements at various other theatres, he appeared in January 1893 in G. S. Ogilvie's Hypatia at the Haymarket Theatre under the management of (Sir) Herbert Beerbohm Tree, and later in the same year in a series of Ibsen's plays at the Opera Comique. In the autumn of 1893 Waller undertook theatrical management for the first time, in conjunction with H. H. Morell (Mackenzie), son of Sir Morell Mackenzie, the physician, when he went on tour in Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance.

At the Haymarket Theatre on 3 January 1895 Waller began his career as a London theatrical manager, producing, in conjunction with H. H. Morell, Oscar Wilde's comedy An Ideal Husband. In the same year he joined forces for a short time with (Sir) Charles Wyndham at the Criterion Theatre. At the Haymarket in May 1896 he gave a brilliant interpretation of the part of Hotspur in Henry IV, Part I. In April 1897 he was engaged by Tree for the opening of Her Majesty's Theatre; and between that date and September 1900 he appeared there in many parts, the most notable of which were Laertes in Hamlet, Philip Faulconbridge in King John, and Brutus in Julius Caesar. On the conclusion of his engagement with Tree, Waller resumed management on his own account. In conjunction with William Mollison he entered into the management of the Lyceum Theatre, where he revived Henry Hamilton's adaptation of The Three Musketeers on 3 November 1900. During a vacation from Her Majesty's Theatre in 1898 Waller had made a notable appearance in this play in the part of D'Artagnan. In December 1900 he achieved what was possibly his finest impersonation, namely that of the King in Henry V.

At the Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool, 6 October 1902, Waller appeared for the first time in the title-rôle of Monsieur Beaucaire by E. G. Sutherland and Booth Tarkington. On 25 October he produced 550