Background
Walker was born in Southgate, Middlesex and was the second of seven cricket playing brothers - the Walkers of Southgate.
Walker was born in Southgate, Middlesex and was the second of seven cricket playing brothers - the Walkers of Southgate.
He was educated in Stanmore and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He played as a right-handed batsman and an underarm bowler in fourteen first-class matches for Cambridge University (1846–1848) and a Middlesex XI (1851–1859). He died in Arnos Grove, aged 42.