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at Fulta, from the hardships which he had undergone.

WALES, JAMES (1747–1795)

Educated at the Marischal College, Aberdeen : took to art and exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy, 1783–91, when he went to India : painted portraits of native Princes and others : worked with the Daniells (q.v.) in India, at Ellore, and drew the sculptures at Elephanta, near Bombay : said to have died at Tanna, Nov. 13, 1795.

WALKER, ALEXANDER (1764–1831)

Born May 12, 1764 : son of William Walker : went out to Bombay in the E. I. Co.'s Army, 1780 : in the Malabar campaign against Hyder : at the siege of Mangalore : commanded an expedition, 1785–7, sent by the Bombay Government to N. America, which failed : served in Travancore, 1790 : against Tippoo, 1791–2 : Military Secretary to the officer commanding in Malabar : and to General James Stuart, while C. in C., Bombay : Q.M.G., Bombay : at Seringapatam, 1799 : served in Cochin, Malabar, and the Wynaad : Resident at the Court of the Gaekwar of Barado, 1802–7 : quieted Kattiawar, 1807 (suppressing infanticide), and Gujarat, 1809 : retired, 1812 : Brig-General : Governor of St. Helena, 1822–30 : died March 5, 1831 : his Oriental MSS. presented to the Bodleian Library.

WALKER, SIR GEORGE TOWNSHEND, BARONET (1764–1842)

Son of Major Nathaniel Walker : born May 25, 1764 : joined the 95th regt., 1782 : served in Southern India in 1784–7 : in Flanders, Portugal, at Copenhagen, at Walcheren, in the Peninsula : commanded a Division : K.C.B., 1815 : G.C.B., 1817 : Lt-General, 1821 : C. in C, Madras, March, 1826, to May, 1831 : Baronet, 1831 : Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, 1837 : General, 1838 : died Nov. 14, 1842.

WALKER, SIR JAMES LEWIS (1845–)

Son of John Walker, Panjab Police : established the Alliance Bank, of which he was first General Manager and then Director (1874–91) : commanded 2nd Panjab Volunteers, 1884–91 : one of the Proprietors of The Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette : partner of two Brewery firms : C.I.E., 1888 : K.B., 1903.

WALKER, JAMES THOMAS (1826–1896)

Son of John Walker, Madras : C.S. : born Dec. I, 1826 : educated privately and at Addiscombe : went to Bombay in the Bombay Engineers, 1846 : in the Panjab campaign, 1848–9, at Gujarat, and in the pursuit of the Sikhs and Afghans : made a military survey of the frontier from Peshawar to Dera Ismail Khan : in frontier expeditions, 1849–53 : appointed to the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, 1853 : at the siege of Delhi, 1857, as a Field Engineer : Brevet-Major : in the Mahsud-Waziri expedition, 1860 : Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey, 1861–1883 : Lt-Colonel, 1864 : published from 1871 the Account of the Operations of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, bringing out 9 of the 20 volumes : did much work as a geographer, and in promoting tidal observations : C.B., 1877 : Surveyor-General of India, 1878–83 : General, 1884 : Member of Council of the Royal Geographical Society, 1885 : F.R.S., 1865 : LL.D., Cambridge, 1883 : member also of foreign Societies, and wrote for the Encyclopedia Britannica, and scientific Journals : died Feb. 16, 1896.

WALKER, SIR WILLIAM HARRISON (1800–1872)

Son of Benjamin Walker : entered the E. I. Co.'s naval service at 15 : retired in 1839, on the expiration of the Company's charter, but afterwards commanded several ships trading between England and Calcutta : F.R.G.S. : Senior Professional Member of the Marine and Harbour Departments of the Board of Trade : knighted in 1871, in recognition of his services under the Company and the Crown : died Sep. 1872.

WALLACE, SIR DONALD MAC-KENZIE (1841–)

Born Nov. 11, 1841 : son of Robert Wallace : educated at Edinburgh, Berlin, Heidelberg, and Paris : Private Secretary to Marquess of Duiferin and Mar- quess of Lansdowne, as Viceroys of India, 1884–9 : attached to the Czare-witch as Political Officer during his tour