Helen Wallace

Dame Helen Sarah Wallace, Lady Wallace of Saltaire, DBE, CMG, FBA (born 25 June 1946), née Rushworth, is a British expert in European Studies and, by marriage to William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire, a peeress. She attended Oxford University (1963–67), where she was President of the Oxford University Liberal Club. Having already met her future husband, William Wallace, at Oxford, she spent a year at Bruges, Belgium, undertaking postgraduate studies at the College of Europe (1967–68). Helen Rushworth married William Wallace on 25 August 1968; the couple had two children, Harriet (born 1977) and Edward (born 1981). William Wallace had already embarked on his academic and political career and had served briefly as Lecturer in the...