Online Encyclopedia

THOMAS WALKER (1784—1836)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 274 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

THOMAS WALKER (1784—1836)  ,
See also:
English police magistrate, best known as author of The
See also:
Original, was born on the loth of
See also:
October 1784 at Charlton-cum-Hardy, near Manchester, where his
See also:
father was a prosperous cotton merchant and an active Whig politician . He was educated at Cambridge and called to the bar, and after devoting some years mainly to the study of the Poor Law was made police magistrate in
See also:
Lambeth in 1829 . In 1835 he started his weekly publication The Original, containing his reflections on various social subjects and especially on eating and drinking; and it is in the
See also:
history of gastronomy, and the
See also:
art of dining, that this curious and amusing
See also:
work is famous . The weekly numbers continued for six months, and subsequently were republished, after Walker's
See also:
death on the loth of
See also:
January 1836, in an
See also:
American selection (1837), in
See also:
editions by W . B . Jerrold (with memoir) (1874), W . A . Guy (1875), and Henry Morley (1887), and in another selection of
See also:
Sir Henry Cole (" Felix Summerley "), called Aristology (1881) . Distance . Name . Time . Date .

Place . 1 mile A . T . Yeomans. hr.
See also:
min. sec . 1906 Bath 6 19- 2 miles A . T . Yeomans . 12 53i 1906
See also:
Swansea 3 „ J . W . Raby (profes- sional) 20 211 1883 Lillie
See also:
Bridge 4 „ G . E . Larner .

. 27 14 1905

See also:
Brighton 5 W . Raby 35 10 1883 Lillie Bridge to J . W . Raby . . 1 14 45 1883 Lillie Bridge 15 „ J . W . Raby . . 1 55 56 1883 Lillie Bridge 20 „ W . Perkins . . 2 39 57 1877 Lillie Bridge 30 „ J . Butler . . .

4 29 52 1905 . Putney 40 J . Butler . . . 6 11 17 1905 Putney 50 „ J . Butler 7 52 27 1905 Putney

loo „ T . E . Hammond .

End of Article: THOMAS WALKER (1784—1836)
[back]
SEARS COOK WALKER (1805—1853)
[next]
WILLIAM WALKER (1824-1860)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.