Peter Wallace (buccaneer)

Captain Peter Wallace
The Buccaneer by Walter A. Clark for Scribner’s Magazine (1907)
Born	before 1630s England or Scotland
Died	after 1630s colonial Belize (presumed)
Known for	founding the first English settlement in the Bay of Honduras in 1638
Piratical career
Type	Buccaneer
Years active	1630s
Rank	Captain
Base of operations	Bay of Honduras West Indies
Commands	Swallow

Peter Wallace (fl. 1638) is commonly held to have been an English or Scottish buccaneer who, in 1638 aboard the Swallow, founded the first English settlement in present-day Belize. Wallace's historicity is debated, first emerging in the 1829 Honduras Almanack; however, several scholars deem him a legendary protagonist of the country's founding myth, rather than an actual historical figure.