Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Head, (Sir) Edmund Walker (Bart.)

3849341Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 — Head, (Sir) Edmund Walker (Bart.)Joseph Foster


Head, (Sir) Edmund Walker (Bart.), o.s. John, of Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, baronet. Oriel Coll., matric. 11 June, 1823, aged 18, B.A. 1827; fellow Merton Coll. 1830-5, M.A. 1830, principal of postmasters, and tutor, 1830, created D.C.L. 2 July, 1862, a student of Lincoln's Inn 1835, governor-general of Canada 1854-61, Poor-law commissioner 1841, lieut.-governor of New Brunswick 1847-54, P.C, K.C.B., died 28 Jan., 1868, author of 'Handbook of the Spanish and French Schools of Painting.'