Sir George Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet

Captain
Sir George Forestier-Walker, Bt
JP DL
Born
George Ferdinand Radziwill Walker

(1825-05-24)24 May 1825
Died1 August 1896(1896-08-01) (aged 71)
Wentloog Castle, Monmouth
EducationRoyal Military College, Sandhurst
Spouse
Hon. Fanny Henrietta Morgan
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(m. 1854; died 1887)​
Children8
Parent(s)Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet
Helen Caldcleugh
RelativesEdward Forestier-Walker (cousin)

Captain Sir George Ferdinand Radziwill Forestier-Walker, 2nd Baronet JP DL (24 May 1825 – 1 August 1896) was a British soldier.

Early life

Walker was born on 24 May 1825,[1] the eldest son of the four sons and two daughters of General Sir George Walker, 1st Baronet, and his second wife, the former Helen Caldcleugh, a daughter of Alexander Caldcleugh.[2][3]

His paternal grandparents were Major Nathaniel Walker of the Queen's Rangers and Henrietta Bagster, daughter and heiress of Captain John Bagster of the Royal Navy).[4] Through his uncle, General Frederick Nathaniel Walker, he was a first cousin of General Sir Edward Forestier-Walker, who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland, and married Lady Jane Ogilvy-Grant, a daughter of Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield).[5]

Career

After being educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1845 he was commissioned as a Lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards and later promoted to Captain.[3] Upon the death of his father on 14 November 1842, he succeeded as the 2nd Walker baronet, of Castleton.[6] He served as a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for Monmouthshire.[7]

In 1893, his surname was changed to Forestier-Walker.[5]

Personal life

On 9 October 1854, he married Fanny Henrietta Morgan (c. 1835–1887), a daughter of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, longtime MP for Brecon, and the former Rosamund Mundy.[8] Together, they were the parents of:[9]

  • Sir George Ferdinand Forestier-Walker, 3rd Baronet (1855–1933), who married Georgina Emily Chamberlain, a daughter of Robert Deane Chamberlain, in 1897.[5]
  • Radziwill Frederick Forestier-Walker (1856–1934), who married Eva Laura Justice, a daughter of Col. Francis Justice, in 1894. They divorced in 1905.[7]
  • Clarence Francis Forestier-Walker (1857–1907), who married Blanche Lancaster Clark, a daughter of George Thomas Clark, in 1891.[7]
  • Ivor Augustus Forestier-Walker (1860–1928), who married Georgina Osborne, a daughter of John Osborne, in 1891. After her death in 1910 he married Agnes Maud Mayhew, daughter of Rev. Caleb Baskett Mayhew, in 1912.[7]
  • Devereux Philip Forestier-Walker (1864–1936), who married Isabella Constance Dalgety, a daughter of Frederick Dalgety, in 1896.[7]
  • Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, 1st Baronet (1866–1934), an MP for Monmouth who married Alice Blandy-Jenkins, a daughter of Col. John Blandy-Jenkins, in 1894.[7]
  • Roland Stuart Forestier-Walker (1871–1938), who married Olive Bassett, a daughter of Ralph Thurstan Bassett, in 1904. They divorced in 1918 and he married Norah Jacintha (née Phipps), Lady Fuller, the widow of Sir John Fuller, 1st Baronet and daughter of Charles N. P. Phipps (MP for Westbury), in 1921.[7]
  • Charles Evelyn Forestier-Walker (1875–1931), who married Ada Llewelyn Mansel, a daughter of Col. Robert Henry Mansel, in 1905.[7]

Sir George died at Wentloog Castle, Monmouth, on 1 August 1896.[10][7]

References

  1. ^ Debrett, John; Collen, George William (1840). Debrett's Baronetage of England. London: William Pickering.
  2. ^ Burke, John B. (1850). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary. London: Henry Colburn.
  3. ^ a b "Walker, George Ferdinand Radzivill, Sir, 2nd Baronet (1825 -1896) | British Armorial Bindings". armorial.library.utoronto.ca. Bibliographical Society of London. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  4. ^ Burnham, Robert; McGuigan, Ron (2010). The British Army Against Napoleon. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline Books. ISBN 978-1-84832-562-3.
  5. ^ a b c Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: Comprising Information Concerning All Persons Bearing Hereditary Or Courtesy Titles, Knights, and Companions of All the Various Orders, and the Collateral Branches of All Peers and Baronets. Dean & Son, Limited. 1902. p. 607. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  6. ^ Heathcote, T.A. (2010). Wellington's Peninsular War Generals & Their Battles: A Biographical and Historical Dictionary. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-84884-061-4.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 1, page 1466.
  8. ^ Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1907. pp. 1653–1654. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  9. ^ Mair, Robert H. (1884). Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage. London: Dean & Son.
  10. ^ Burke, Edmund (1897). Annual Register. Longmans, Green. p. 172. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
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