Walker, Robert ♂
Education
Joint librarian and quaestor 26.11.1864 - 9.1.1869. Librarian , quaestor and registrar 12.1.1869 - 5.2.1881.
Birth/childhood
Baptised 20.2.1828 son of Robert Walker, coachman and domestic servant, Kenly Green and Elspet Anderson.
Additional information
Apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in Cupar. Worked as a journeyman in St Andrews. [Cabinetmaker]
Self taught and particularly interested in Natural History.
Joint librarian and quaestor 26.11.1864 - 9.1.1869. Librarian , quaestor and registrar 12.1.1869 - 5.2.1881. [St Andrews University]
Publications (in Scottish Naturalist and Annals and Magazine of Natural History).
Death
Died 5.2.1881 aged 55.
Sources
- St Andrews Gazette 10.4.1869
- St Andrews Citizen 12.2.1881 p4, 26.7.1913
- East Fife Record 11.7.1881 p2
- Fifeshire Jnl. 10.2.1881 p5
- Library Bulletin 5 p71-2
- Death Reg. St Andrews 1881