Sir George Gustavus Walker KCB JP DL (18 January 1830 – 5 August 1897) was a

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(MP). The son of John Walker, of Crawfordton, and his wife, Jessy, he was educated at

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and

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. He was the Conservative MP for

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, elected at the 1865 general election. He lost to

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Sydney Waterlow at the 1868 general election, but regained his seat at a by-election in 1869 owing to the disqualification of Waterlow when he became a

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. Walker stepped down at the 1874 general election.

John Hope-Johnstone (1842–1912) John James Hope-Johnstone, 8th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (5 October 1842 – 26 December 1912) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician. At the 1874 general election Johnstone was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriess ...

subsequently won the seat for the Tories. He was appointed KCB in 1892. He married Anne Murray Lennock, only daughter of Admiral George Gustavus Lennock.Who's who of British members of parliament, Vol1, 1832-1885; Michael Stenton, Stephen Lees They had one daughter, Ethel Mary Walker, who married the Liberal politician

Edward Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1st Baron Brabourne (29 April 1829 – 6 February 1893), known as E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, was a British Liberal and later Conservative politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Departm ...

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* 1831 births 1897 deaths Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 {{Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub