Edward Walker (mathematician)

Edward Walker FRS (c. 1820 – 2 March 1893) was an English applied mathematician and theoretical physicist.^[2]

Edward Walker
Born	c. 1820 Gestingthorpe, Essex, UK
Died	(1893-03-02)2 March 1893 Shepherd's Bush, London
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Awards	Adams Prize (1865)[1]

He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with B.A. (8th Wrangler) in 1844 and M.A. in 1847. At Trinity College he was a Fellow in 1845 and an assistant Tutor in 1846–1847. He won the Adams Prize in 1865 and was elected F.R.S. on 3 June 1869.^[3] He was called to the bar at Inner Temple on 17 November 1868.^[2]

On 30 September 1847 he married Anne Whinfield at St. James's Church, Norlands, Bayswater.^[4] The marriage produced several children.