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 very cormorant at learning, and one of those rare men who have the faculty of acquiring knowledge’ (Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian, i. 112). The principles of domestic, colonial, and foreign policy which he formulated and enforced on becoming editor of the ‘Daily News,’ made that journal's fame; and when he retired from conducting it, Mr. Frederick Greenwood wrote in the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’ that Walker had been distinguished as editor ‘by a delicate sense of honour and great political candour. He always held aloof from partisan excesses, and has shown himself at all times anxious to do justice to opponents—not common merits.’

 WALKER, THOMAS LARKINS (d. 1860), architect, son of Adam Walker, was a pupil of Augustus Charles Pugin [q. v.], and a co-executor of his will. He designed (1838–9) All Saints' Church, Spicer Street, Mile End; 1839, Camphill House, Warwickshire, for J. Craddock; 1839–40, church at Attleborough, Nuneaton, for Lord Harrowby; 1840–2, St. Philip's Church, Mount Street, Bethnal Green; 1841, hospital at Bedworth, Warwickshire; 1842, Hartshill church, Warwickshire; and restored the church at Ilkeston, Derbyshire.

During part of his practice he resided at Nuneaton, and subsequently at Leicester. Emigrating to China, he died at Hongkong on 10 Oct. 1860.

He published various illustrated architectural works in the style of Augustus Pugin's productions, viz.: 1. ‘Vicar's Close Wells,’ 1836, 4to. 2. ‘Manor House and Church at Great Chalfield, Wilts,’ 1837, 4to. 3. ‘Manor House of South Wraxhall, Wilts, and Church of St. Peter at Biddlestone,’ 1838, 4to. These three volumes are in continuation of Pugin's ‘Examples of Gothic Architecture,’ and the plates in the first-named are by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin [q. v.] 4. ‘The Church of Stoke Golding, Leicestershire,’ 1844, 4to, for Weale's ‘Quarterly Papers on Architecture.’ He also edited Davy's ‘Architectural Precedents,’ 1841, 8vo, in which he included an article on architectural practice and the specification of his own hospital at Bedworth.

 WALKER, WILLIAM (1623–1684), schoolmaster and author, was born in Lincoln in 1623, and educated at the public school there. He proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his degree. He taught for some time at a private school at Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire, was headmaster of Louth grammar school, and subsequently of Grantham grammar school, where he is erroneously said to have had Sir Isaac Newton as a pupil. Newton, however, had left the Grantham grammar school while Walker's predecessor, Mr. Stokes, was still at its head, but there existed a friendship of some intimacy between the two when Walker was vicar of Colsterworth, after he had left Grantham. Walker died on 1 Aug. 1684.

Walker's works show his two chief interests, pedagogy and theology. As a pedagogue he gained a considerable reputation in his time, and was known as ‘Particles’ Walker from his book on that subject. His chief works are: 1. ‘A Dictionary of English and Latin Idioms,’ London, 1670. 2. ‘Phraseologia Anglo-Latina, to which is added Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina,’ London 1672. 3. ‘A Treatise of English Particles,’ London, 1673, which has gone through many editions and been the subject of a great number of editorial comments. 4. ‘The Royal (Lily's) Grammar explained,’ London, 1674. 5. ‘A Modest Plea for Infants' Baptism,’ Cambridge, 1677. 6. ‘Βαπτισμῶν Διδαχή, the Doctrine of Baptisms,’ London, 1678. 7. ‘English Examples of Latin Syntaxis,’ London, 1683. 8. ‘Some Improvements to the Art of Teaching,’ London, 1693.

 WALKER, WILLIAM (1791–1867), engraver, son of Alexander Walker, by his wife, Margaret Somerville of Lauder, was born at Markton, Musselburgh, near Edinburgh, on 1 Aug. 1791. His father was for some time a manufacturer of salt from sea water, but this business proving unprofitable, he removed to Edinburgh, and there apprenticed his son to E. Mitchell, an engraver of repute. In 1815 young Walker came to London, and worked under James Stewart (1791–1863) [q. v.] and Thomas Woolnoth, later taking lessons in mezzotint from Thomas Lupton [q. v.] Obtaining, through the Earl of Kellie, an introduction to Sir Henry Raeburn [q. v.], he was employed to engrave a large plate of that artist's fine equestrian portrait of the Earl of Hopetoun, which established his reputation, and he subsequently engraved a number of the same painter's portraits, including those of Sir Walter Scott and Raeburn himself; the last is perhaps the finest example of stipple work ever produced. In 1828 Walker commis-