Hence, if the social environment were improved, so would the morals and well being of the workers. Wallace would eventually be deeply impressed by Owen's utopian social ideals - with a stress on the role of environment in determining character and behaviour. In this context (according to his later recollections) Wallace encountered the socialist ideas of the reformer Robert Owen although the influence of such ideas only seem to appear in his later life. Here Wallace saw working-class people up close, but saw them as different from himself. Wallace spent his evenings in an educational "Hall of science" for working men. Wallace then left home to join his elder brother John, an apprentice builder in London. Wallace never attended university like almost everyone else at the time. This view probably arose from Wallace's touching recollections of the embarrassment he felt as his family's lack of money became obvious to his fellow students and because almost all modern writers on Wallace are not qualified historians of the period. Wallace was not forced to leave school early because of financial difficulties, as frequently claimed in recent works, but finished school at the normal age. Wallace left school aged fourteen in March 1837, shortly after Darwin returned from the Beagle voyage.
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Here Wallace attended Hertford Free Grammar School which advertised itself as a school for the sons of gentlemen, and offered a classical education, very much like Darwin's at Shrewsbury Free Grammar School, including Latin grammar, classical geography and "some Euclid and algebra". When Wallace was about six years old the family moved to Hertford, north of London, where he lived until he was fourteen. But financial circumstances declined so the family moved from London to a village near Usk, on the Welsh borders, where Wallace was born in the large Kensington Cottage on 8 January 1823. His English father, a solicitor by training, once had property sufficient to generate a gentleman's income of £500 per annum. Unlike Darwin, Wallace came from a rather humble and ordinary background. A biographical sketch by John van WyheĪlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was a great English naturalist who is primarily remembered for conceiving of a theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin.
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