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Alfred was the seventh child of nine children. Born to Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne Greenell.
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Wallace attended grammar school in Hertford until financial ruin forced his family to withdraw him in 1836.
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He left London in 1837 to live with William and work as his apprentice for six years.
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Between 1840 and 1843, he spent his time surveying in the west of England and Wales
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In 1844, Wallace was hired as a master at the Collegiate School in Leicester, England.
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After the death of his brother William in 1845, Wallace left his teaching position to assume control of his brother's firm.
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In 1848, Wallace, together with Henry Walter Bates left for Brazil to collect specimens in the Amazon Rainforest.
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In 1852, after more than four years of collecting thousands of birds, beetles, butterflies, and other animal specimens, Wallace set forth on a ship, with his collection, to return to England.
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In 1853, he published an account of his trip, Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro.
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In 1855, Wallace published a paper, On the Law Which has Regulated the Introduction of Species.
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On June 18, 1858, Darwin received On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type from Wallace
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In 1862, Wallace returned to the UK, where he moved in with his sister Fanny Sims and her husband Thomas.
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Wallace married Annie Mitten in 1866.
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Alfred Wallaces first son Herbert is born
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Alfreds first daughter Violet is born.
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Alfreds second son William is born.
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In 1872, Wallace built the Dell, a house of concrete, on land he leased in Grays in Essex, where he lived until 1876
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Alfreds first son Herbert dies.
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In 1889, Wallace read Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy and declared himself a socialist
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Buried at the small cemetery of Broadstone by his wish and that of his family, rather than in Westminster Abbey beside Charles Darwin.
