Oliver Ormerod Walker (1833 – 30 May 1914) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was the eldest son of Oliver Ormerod Walker and his second wife, Helen Elizabeth Garston, of Chesham House, near Bury, Lancashire. He was a

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, justice of the peace, and held a commission in the 7th Royal Lancashire

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. He was also a Deputy-Lieutenant for Lancashire,

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of Bury and held the office of

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in 1876. On the formation of the

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he became lieutenant colonel of the 8th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps.''Election Intelligence - Salford'', The Times, 20 April 1877, p. 5''Obituary- Colonel O. O. Walker'', The Times, 1 June 1914, p. 13 In 1877 he was chosen as Conservative candidate for

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on the death of one of the sitting

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(MP),

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. He was successful at the

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and served as MP until the 1880 general election, when both Salford seats were won by Liberals. He married Jane Harrison in 1860. Walker died 30 May 1914, aged 81.

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* 1833 births 1914 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1874–1880 Volunteer Force officers High Sheriffs of Lancashire Deputy Lieutenants of Lancashire Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Salford English justices of the peace {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1830s-stub