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	'''David Maxwell Walker''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CBE\|QC\|FBA\|FRSE}} (9 April 1920<ref>{{cite web\|title=Prof David M Walker, CBE, QC, FRSE, FBA \|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx \|publisher=Debretts \|access-date=13 January 2014 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113224701/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx \|archive-date=13 January 2014 }}</ref> – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and [[Regius Chair of Law, Glasgow\|Regius Professor of Law]] at the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://news.stv.tv/west-central/259564-tributes-paid-to-professor-david-walker-qc-who-had-died-at-the-age-of-93/ \|title=Tributes paid to Professor David Walker QC who had died at the age of 93 \|publisher=STV News \|access-date=9 January ~~2022~~}}</ref>		'''David Maxwell Walker''' {{post-nominals\|country=GBR\|size=100%\|CBE\|QC\|FBA\|FRSE}} (9 April 1920<ref>{{cite web\|title=Prof David M Walker, CBE, QC, FRSE, FBA \|url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx \|publisher=Debretts \|access-date=13 January 2014 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113224701/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx \|archive-date=13 January 2014 }}</ref> – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and [[Regius Chair of Law, Glasgow\|Regius Professor of Law]] at the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://news.stv.tv/west-central/259564-tributes-paid-to-professor-david-walker-qc-who-had-died-at-the-age-of-93/ \|title=Tributes paid to Professor David Walker QC who had died at the age of 93 \|publisher=STV News \|access-date=9 January 2014}}</ref>

	==Early life==		==Early life==
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	Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the [[British Army\|Army]] at the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1939. He began as a [[non-commissioned officer]] in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)\|Cameronians]], was seconded to the [[Royal Army Service Corps]] in 1941, and then served with the [[Indian Armed Forces]] 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.<ref name=who/>		Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the [[British Army\|Army]] at the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1939. He began as a [[non-commissioned officer]] in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)\|Cameronians]], was seconded to the [[Royal Army Service Corps]] in 1941, and then served with the [[Indian Armed Forces]] 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.<ref name=who/>

	He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating [[Master of Arts (Scotland)\|MA]] in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year.<ref name=who/> 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,<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Walker\|first=David Maxwell\|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27594\|title=Equity in Scots law\|year=1952\|hdl=1842/27594}}</ref> graduating in 1952.<ref name=who/><ref name=ScotsmanObit>{{cite news\|last=Shaw\|first=Alison\|title=Obituary: David Walker CBE, QC, regius professor emeritus of law\|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-david-walker-cbe-qc-regius-professor-emeritus-of-law-1-3264238\|access-date=17 January 2014\|newspaper=The Scotsman\|date=11 January ~~2022~~}}</ref>		He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating [[Master of Arts (Scotland)\|MA]] in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year.<ref name=who/> 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,<ref>{{Cite book\|last=Walker\|first=David Maxwell\|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27594\|title=Equity in Scots law\|year=1952\|hdl=1842/27594}}</ref> graduating in 1952.<ref name=who/><ref name=ScotsmanObit>{{cite news\|last=Shaw\|first=Alison\|title=Obituary: David Walker CBE, QC, regius professor emeritus of law\|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-david-walker-cbe-qc-regius-professor-emeritus-of-law-1-3264238\|access-date=17 January 2014\|newspaper=The Scotsman\|date=11 January 2014}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==

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'''David Maxwell Walker''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE|QC|FBA|FRSE}} (9 April 1920<ref>{{cite web|title=Prof David M Walker, CBE, QC, FRSE, FBA |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx |publisher=Debretts |access-date=13 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113224701/http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/w/7996/David%20Maxwell+WALKER.aspx |archive-date=13 January 2014 }}</ref> – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and [[Regius Chair of Law, Glasgow|Regius Professor of Law]] at the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.stv.tv/west-central/259564-tributes-paid-to-professor-david-walker-qc-who-had-died-at-the-age-of-93/ |title=Tributes paid to Professor David Walker QC who had died at the age of 93 |publisher=STV News |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>

==Early life==
Walker was educated at the [[High School of Glasgow]],<ref name=who>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U38559 "Walker, Prof. David Maxwell"], ''Who's Who'', 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010 {{subscription}}</ref> at the time the city's publicly funded grammar school, where he was Mackindlay Prizeman in [[Classics]].<ref name=who/> He was the son of a bank agent who died when Walker was 14.<ref name=ScotsmanObit />

Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the [[British Army|Army]] at the outbreak of [[World War II]] in 1939. He began as a [[non-commissioned officer]] in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)|Cameronians]], was seconded to the [[Royal Army Service Corps]] in 1941, and then served with the [[Indian Armed Forces]] 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.<ref name=who/>

He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating [[Master of Arts (Scotland)|MA]] in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year.<ref name=who/> 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,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walker|first=David Maxwell|url=http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27594|title=Equity in Scots law|year=1952|hdl=1842/27594}}</ref> graduating in 1952.<ref name=who/><ref name=ScotsmanObit>{{cite news|last=Shaw|first=Alison|title=Obituary: David Walker CBE, QC, regius professor emeritus of law|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-david-walker-cbe-qc-regius-professor-emeritus-of-law-1-3264238|access-date=17 January 2014|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=11 January 2022}}</ref>

==Career==
From 1953 to 1954 he studied at the [[Institute of Advanced Legal Studies]] of the [[University of London]], and in 1954 was appointed [[Chair of Jurisprudence, Glasgow|Professor of Jurisprudence]] at the [[University of Glasgow School of Law|School of Law]] of the [[University of Glasgow]].<ref name=who/> He won the Blackwell Prize of the [[University of Aberdeen]] in 1955, and was Dean of the Faculty of Law and Financial Studies between 1956 and 1959.<ref name=who/> In 1958, he succeeded [[Andrew Dewar Gibb]] as [[Regius Chair of Law, Glasgow|Regius Professor of Law]] at Glasgow, and was appointed [[Queen's Counsel]].<ref name=who/> 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 [[Joe Thomson]]. He was appointed a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1980 and served as its Vice-President from 1985 to 1988.<ref name=who/> He was awarded honorary degrees of [[Doctor of Laws|LLD]] by the Universities of [[University of London|London]] (1968), [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] (1974),<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Graduates of the University of Edinburgh |url=http://www.scripts.sasg.ed.ac.uk/registry/Graduations/GraduateDetails.cfm?ID=1746 |access-date=11 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103724/http://www.scripts.sasg.ed.ac.uk/registry/Graduations/GraduateDetails.cfm?ID=1746 |archive-date=2 February 2014 }}</ref> and [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] (1985), and was appointed [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 1986.<ref name=who/>

===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 [[High School of Glasgow]] from 1974 to 2001. He lived in the West End of Glasgow until his death aged 93 on 5 January 2014.<ref name=who/>

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