John Walter was an English newspaper publisher and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885.
Background
Walter was born at Printing-house Square, the eldest son of John Walter, editor of The Times. On leaving Oxford he took part in the business management of The Times, and on his father"s death became sole manager, though he devolved part of the work on Mowbray Morris.
Education
He was educated at Eton and Exeter College, Oxford, being called to the bar in 1847.
Career
He was a man of scholarly tastes and serious religious views, and his conscientious character had a marked influence on the tone of the paper. lieutenant was under him that the successive improvements in the printing machinery, begun by his father in 1814, at last reached the stage of the "Walter Press" in 1869, the pioneer of modern newspaper printing-presses. In 1847 Walter was elected to Parliament for Nottingham as a moderate Liberal, and was re-elected in 1852 and in 1857.
In 1859 he was returned for Berkshire, where he lived at Bearwood House in Sindlesham.
John Walter built a model village arranged around a green at Sindlesham, whose buildings included a "typically solid Victorian building" which housed a public and still bears the family name today, as the Walter Arms. Though defeated in 1865, John Walter III was again elected to Parliament for Berkshire in 1868, and held the seat until he retired in 1885.
Walter was twice married, firstly in 1842 to Emily Frances Court (d 1858), and secondly in 1861 to Flora Macnabb. Armed Forces Walter remained chief proprietor of The Times until 1908, when it was converted into a company.
Membership
14th United Kingdom Parliament. 15th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament.
17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament. 19th United Kingdom Parliament.
20th United Kingdom Parliament. 21st United Kingdom Parliament.
22nd United Kingdom Parliament.