Edward Forestier-Walker


Sir Edward Walter Forestier-Walker was a British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland.

Early life

Sir Edward was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Gen. Frederick Nathaniel Walker and Annabella Cane. His father was the younger brother of Gen. Sir George Townshend Walker, 1st Baronet. His mother died in Calais in 1829 and is buried in Boulogne.

Military career

Forestier-Walker was commissioned in 1827. He commanded the Scots Fusilier Guards at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854, at the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and at the Siege of Sebastopol in Winter 1854 during the Crimean War. He became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland in 1862.
He was also colonel of the 50th Regiment of Foot from 1871 to 1881, when they became part of the new Queen's Own, after which he was briefly Colonel of the first battalion of the latter before his death later that year.

Personal life

On 20 July 1843, Forestier-Walker married Lady Jane Ogilvy-Grant, daughter of Colonel Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield. They had four sons:
Lady Jane died in 1861. In 1862, he married secondly to Lady Juliana Caroline Frances Knox, daughter of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly. They had a daughter, who died as an infant:
He died at the Manor House in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in 1881.