360:. The team were based in Dulwich when he started playing for them, though during his time with them they did move elsewhere. With this side he gained an excellent reputation in the South of England as a three-quarter. He was selected for the 1903 tour to South Africa and was described as a consistent player and played in two of the tests. On his return to the United Kingdom he continued to play for Lennox and in 1906 was the captain of the side. The side at that point was not so strong as in previous seasons though it was said that in Blackwood who played alongside Walker they had a player that would have been selected England had he not been injured. He was also later involved in the game as a referee and in 1909 was a joint honorary secretary of the
273:). During William's time in Java his family expanded. Ralph (born 1865), John H. (born 1867), Annie (also Nancy) born 1871, Catherine (born 1872) and William (born 1873) were all born there. The family returned to the United Kingdom, and Lissie M. was born in Bow, London in 1874 and the Edward was born in 1876 in Norwood. At this point, they were living in the well to do suburb of
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In 1901, aged 25, he was living by his means and still in his mother's house. However, his father had died in 1894 and the family had left Alleyn Park Road in
Dulwich and moved to the nearby Norwood. It is unclear if Edward did take up a profession, because in 1911 although he had moved to Clifton
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and then was appointed superintendent engineer to the
Netherlands India (Java) Mail Company, with whom he remained ten years until the expiration of their mail contract in 1869 continuing afterwards with their successors for a while. In this time, he had married Anna, from
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1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 772; Folio 5; Page 4; GSU roll: 6095882., Census
Returns of England and Wales, 1891. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO),
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1891 England Census, Class: RG12; Piece: 461; Folio 40; Page 13; GSU roll: 6095571, Census
Returns of England and Wales, 1891. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO),
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232:. Although William had relatively humble origins, a long and successful career meant that Edward was born into an affluent family. William had served a seven-year apprenticeship at the engine works of the
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Edward Forbes Walker was the youngest of the nine children of
William Walker and his wife Anna. William Walker was a Colonial Engineer, a position of some prestige in the Victorian era in the
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Proceedings - Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Volume 47, Parts 3–4 (Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Great Britain)), 1894 - Technology & Engineering p166
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in South Africa. He was not a combatant, but gained notoriety due to his escape from the Boers after being captured. He had been surveying in
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Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England
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Bystander: an illustrated weekly, devoted to travel, literature, art, the drama, progress, locomotion, Volume 10, p197, 1906
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on one of the most affluent roads, Alleyn Park Road. The house they lived in was named
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Edward's older brother was John H. Walker. Edward was referred to in a report on the
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Colliery and afterwards worked at the locomotive works of the
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king, where they were treated well. They then walked to
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679:England
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275:Dulwich
208:on the
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878:Walker
800:Surrey
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267:Dundee
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