David Maxwell Walker (9 April 1920 – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and Regius Professor of Law at the

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Early life

Walker was educated at the

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''Who's Who'', 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010 at the time the city's publicly funded grammar school, where he was Mackindlay Prizeman in Classics. He was the son of a bank agent who died when Walker was 14. Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the

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at the outbreak of

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in 1939. He began as a non-commissioned officer in the Cameronians, was seconded to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1941, and then served with the

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in India in 1942, in the southwest Asia from 1942 to 1943, and in Italy from 1943 to 1946, rising to the rank of captain. He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating MA in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year. Whilst practising at the Bar he undertook postgraduate study as Faulds Fellow in Law at the University of Glasgow from 1949 to 1952 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on equity in Scots law, graduating in 1952.

Career

From 1953 to 1954 he studied at the

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of the

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, and in 1954 was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at the

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of the

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. He won the Blackwell Prize of the

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in 1955, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies between 1956 and 1959. In 1958, he succeeded Andrew Dewar Gibb as Regius Professor of Law at Glasgow, and was appointed

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. As Regius Professor he published widely in the area of Scots Private Law, remaining in this post until 1990. He continued as Emeritus Regius Professor, and was succeeded by Professor

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. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1980 and served as its Vice-President from 1985 to 1988. He was awarded honorary degrees of LLD by the Universities of

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(1968),

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(1974), and

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(1985), and was appointed

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in 1986.

Publications

*''Law of Damages in Scotland'', 1955 *''The Scottish Legal System'', 1959, 8th edn 2001 *''Law of Delict in Scotland'', 1966, 2nd edn 1981 *''Scottish Courts and Tribunals'', 1969, 5th edn 1985 *''Principles of Scottish Private Law'' (2 vols), 1970, 4th edn (4 vols), 1988–89 *''Law of Prescription and Limitation in Scotland'', 1973, 6th edn 2002 *''Law of Civil Remedies in Scotland'', 1974 *''Law of Contracts in Scotland'', 1979, 3rd edn 1995 *''Oxford Companion to Law'', 1980 *(ed) ''Stair's Institutions'' (6th edn), 1981 *(ed) ''Stair Tercentenary Studies'', 1981 *''The Scottish Jurists'', 1985 *''Legal History of Scotland'', 7 vols, 1988–2004 *Scottish Part of Topham and Ivamy's ''Company Law'', 12th edn 1955, to 16th edn 1978;

Personal life

Walker married Margaret Knox in 1954. His interests included motoring, book-collecting and Scottish history. He served as Governor of the

from 1974 to 2001. He lived in the West End of Glasgow until his death aged 93 on 5 January 2014.

Notes

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