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Authorised form of nameWalker; Edward (1820 - 1893)
Dates1820 - 1893
Date of birth14 September 1820
Place of death17 Keith Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London
Date of death02 March 1893
Research fieldMagnetism
ActivityEducation:
Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1844), MA (1847)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1845-1847); Master, Cheltenham College
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election03/06/1869
RelationshipsEldest son of George Walker of Oven Hall, Gestingthorpe, Essex
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/5299148390881210830006
CodeNA1625
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1869/19Walker, Edward: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/004763Walker, Edwardnd
NLB/1/655Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society26 October 1887
NLB/1/190Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1886
NLB/1/225Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society23 October 1886
NLB/1/598Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society1 October 1887
NLB/2/801Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society8 November 1888
NLB/3/378Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Edward Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society25 May 1889
NLB/7/549Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons10 March 1893
RR/7/477Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XV' by Edward Sabine23 October 1876
RR/7/342Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIV' by Edward Sabine23 September 1874
RR/7/268Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Magnetic survey of Belgium in 1871' by Stephen Joseph Perry29 April 1873
RR/7/205Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XIII' by Edward Sabine8 July 1872
RR/8/209Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe11 June 1879
RR/7/366Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'The absolute direction and intensity of the Earth's magnetic force at Bombay, and its secular and annual variations' by Charles Chambers4 November 1875
RR/7/136Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'Records of the magnetic phenomena at the Kew observatory - No. IV. Analysis of the principal disturbances shown by the horizontal and vertical force magne­tometers of the Kew Observatory, from 1859 to 1864' by Edward Sabine4 July 1871
RR/6/74Referee's report by Edward Walker, on a paper 'On the solar variations of magnetic declination at Bombay' by Charles Chambers14 December 1869
MS/257/5/30Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]25 May 1865
MS/257/5/33Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]29 October 1865
MS/257/5/32Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]9 October 1865
MC/8/14Letter from G B [George Biddell] Airy, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]15 February 1867
MS/257/5/34Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]15 December 1865
MS/257/5/31Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]5 June 1865
MS/257/5/29Letter from Edward Walker, Segrave Lodge, Cheltenham to [Edward Sabine]2 November 1864
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
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