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He was the son of Francis Walker of Soho, London.
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Thomas Walker
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About 1714 he joined the Shepherd"s company (perhaps the Shepherd who was at William Pinkethman"s theatre in Greenwich in 1710). Barton Booth saw Walker in a droll, The Siege of Troy, and recommended him to the management of the Drury Lane Theatre. Walker"s first dramatic effort was to compressing into one play the two parts of Thomas Doctorate"Urfey"s Massaniello.
This work was produced at Lincoln"s Inn Fields, 31 July 1724, with Walker as Massaniello.
The Quaker"s Opera, 1728, an imitation by Walker of the Beggar"s Opera, was acted at Lee and Harper"s booth in Bartholomew Fair. The Fate of Villainy, 1730, was given at Goodman"s Fields Theatre on 24 February 1730 by Henry Giffard and Mistress
Giffard. In 1744 Walker went to Dublin, taking with him the Fate of Villainy, which was acted there under the title of Love and Loyalty.
The second night was to have been for his benefit. Not being able to furnish security for the expenses of the house, he could not induce the managers to reproduce lieutenant
He died three days later, 5 June 1744.
