Thomas Walker

(1784-1836)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Walker, Thomas, 1784-1836 DNB: Walker, Thomas (1784-1836), police magistrate and author LBT ID: ThWalke1836 VIAF ID: 63042729 LOC ID: n86824147	B/BAP: 1784-10-10 DIED: 1836-01-20
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A older contemporary of Byron at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a student of pauperism and police magistrate at the Lambeth Street court (1829). In 1835 he published a weekly paper called The Original.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Walker: Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Moore’s Byron” in Blackwood’s Magazine 27 (February 1830) 389-420 Found 1: ¶ 66 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XIII Found 1: ¶ 10 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter IX. Found 3: ¶ 19 ¶ n1 ¶