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WALKER, RICHARD, son of Richard Walker, St. James’s Street, Westminster, Apothecary to George IV; b. 16 May 1802; adm. 23 Sep 1812; Writer, EICS Bengal 1823; arrived in India 4 Jun 1824; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Shahabad; Acting Register, Shahabad 1825, Officiating Judge and Magistrate there 1827; acting magistrate, Ghazepore 1831; acting Salt Agent, Twenty-Four Parganas 1836; Deputy Accountant-General, Bengal 1846; res. 1 Nov 1854; m. 31 Jan 1833 Jane Mary, dau. of James Young; d. at Cairo, Egypt 23 Nov 1854.

Walker, Peter Sherod Duguid, son of Robert Fulton Walker (qv) and Phyllis Mary Walker; b. 20 May 1941; adm. Sept. 1954 (R); left July 1959; RAC Cirencester, MRAC 1964; a chartered surveyor, ARICS 1971, FRICS 1984; Min. of Agric. and Fish., Alnwick, Hexham and Leicester, 1968-75; sen. land man. Cumbria CC 1975, head of data and policy, Property Services Dept. 1986-; m. 14 Nov. 1975 Geraldine Margaret Maddison, chartered librarian, d. of Surgeon Capt. Basil Roxby Alderson RN; d. 21 Jan. 2009.

WALKER, MORDECAI, brother of Thomas Walker (adm. Jan 1715/6, qv); bapt. St. Christopher le Stocks, London 13 Apr 1704; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1715/6; left 1717; supercargo, EICS [check Presidency]; of Long Parish, Hampshire; m.; d. 29 Apr 1769.

WALKER, JOHN; b.; adm.; in school lists 1801, 1803; left 1807. [Maybe John Walker, son of Rev. John Walker, Bethnal Green, Middlesex, Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Oct 1807, aged 19]

WALKER, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 14) Apr 1716. [Probably John Walker, son of Thomas Walker, and Mary ---, bapt. St. Stephen, Coleman Street, London 10 Mar 1701 (IGI), an elder brother of Bourchier Walker, adm. same month].

WALKER, JOHN TAYLOR, brother of Richard Walker (qv); b. 9 Dec 1805; adm. 20 Mar 1815; Ensign, 25th Foot 28 May 1829; Cadet, EICS Madras 1829; Ensign, 33rd Native Infantry 27 Jun 1832; Lieut., 22 Jan 1835 (gazetted posthumously); d. at Negapatam, Madras 7 Jan 1835.

Walker, John Douglas Hay, brother of Charles Hay Walker (q.v.); b. Oct. 3, 1900; adm. Jan. 15, 1914 (R); left July 1918; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1922; M.A. 1926; d. 3 Nov. 1986.

Walker, James Gerald Bromhead, son of Col. Percy Gerald Walker IA, and Dorothy Judith Gonville, d. of Sir Benjamin Parnell Bromhead Bt CB, of Thurlby Hall, Lincoln; b. 11 Mar. 1907; adm. Sept. 1920 (H); left Dec. 1921 and went to Blundell's Sch. Tiverton; 2nd Lieut. IA Aug. 1926, Lieut. Nov. 1928, Capt. Aug. 1935, Staff Coll. Quetta 1940, psc; GHQ New Delhi 1942-4; Maj. Apr. 1943, temp. Lieut.-Col. June 1943; Brigade MaJ. Burma Ops 1945, despatches 1945; staff of Arts Council (Royal Opera House) 1954-6; Min. of Defence 1957-72; m. 1st 5 Oct. 1935 Sylvia Patricia, d. of Col. Herbert de Lisle Pollard Lowsley CMG CIE DSO RE; 2nd 14 Sept. 1957 Patricia Mary, d. of John Leonard Westwood, head of NCB for E. Derby­shire; d. 11 Nov. 1991.

Walker, Ian Patrick Goold, son of Maj. George Goold Walker DSO MC FSA, secretary HAC, and Lilian Sophie, d. of F. C. P. Clarke of St Helier, Jersey; b. 15 Feb. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (G); left Apr. 1932; film industry; Northants Yeomanry Dec. 1940, transf. Queen's Bays (Capt.), served El Alamein; d. 6 July 1945 of wounds received in Italy Oct. 1944.

Ian Patrick Goold Walker was born at Kensington, London on the 15th of February 1914 the only son of Major George Goold Walker DSO, MC, FSA, Secretary of the Honourable Artillery Company, and Lilian Sophie (nee Grant) Walker of 29, Westbourne Terrace in London and of L’Etacq, Jersey in the Channel Islands. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from September 1927 to April 1932. On leaving school he entered the film industry and he enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1939, serving with their anti aircraft battery.
He attended an Officer Cadet Training Unit before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry on the 7th of December 1940. He was attached to the Queen’s Bays and served with them in the North African campaign from El Alamein to Tunis. He was selected for a Staff training course but refused the offer as his Regiment was under orders to move to Italy.
He was wounded on the 13th October 1944 during the fighting for the Gothic Line and died from his injuries nine months later.
He is commemorated on the Coveney Roll of Honour.
He is buried at Almorah Cemetery, St Helier Grave 22/13F.