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Walker, Timothy, Rev., approximately 1705-1782

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  • Approximately 1705-1782

Reverend Timothy Walker was a friend of Sarah Barker's. He was born in approximately 1705 and died on 1 September 1782 in Concord, New Hampshire.

Walker, Philip L. C. (Philip Lewis Coates), 1892-1955

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  • 1892-1955

Philip L. C. Walker was born in Montreal and grew up in the suburb of Westmount, but the family also spent some time in Winnipeg. His career before the war included work as a clerk and stenographer. During World War I he served in France as a first lieutenant with the 3rd Dorset Regiment. While based in Dorset for training, he met and married his wife, Emilie Mabel Marston Davies, in 1918; he joined the Freemasons there the same year. Later he was a captain with the 4th Somerset Light Infantry. At the end of his life, he lived in Bournemouth in England.

Walker, P. W., active 1845

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  • active 1845

P.W. Walker was a soldier in the British Army. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Artillery and was stationed in Quebec City in 1845.

Walker, Jeremy D. B.

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  • 1936-

Jeremy Desmond Bromhead Walker was born in Magwan Porth, Cornwall, England in 1936. His father, Colonel James Gerald Bromhead Walker, was an officer in the British Army in India and his mother was Sylvia Patricia Pollard Lowsley. Jeremy was educated at the King’s School in Canterbury, the Dragon School and Trinity College, Oxford. His only sibling was his brother, Antony Jeremy Bromhead Walker. After graduating from Oxford with an M A (Oxon) in 1964, Jeremy taught at Leicester University. In 1965 he published his first major academic work on the German mathematician and logician Gottlob Frige. He came to McGill University as an assistant professor in 1966. In 1969 he became an associate professor and a full professor in 1985. Although he spent the bulk of his academic career at McGill, he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) in 1968 and a visiting lecturer at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in Montreal from 1971-1973. Walker taught courses chiefly on moral philosophy or meta-ethics, often including links to society, politics, and religion. He also taught political philosophy, including Marxian and post-Marxian theories, philosophy of literature with emphasis on Jane Austen, Dostoyevsky and children’s literature and the philosophy of psychology stressing the British School of Psychoanalysis. He took early retirement from McGill in 1992 but continued to live in Montreal thereafter. He was married to Catherine Hilliard (nee Forster) and Louise Leahy (nee Kohl) and had two children, Lucy Fisher and Adam Walker. He fell ill to cancer in 2004 and died in 2008.

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