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{{Short description|Scottish lawyer}} | {{Short description|Scottish lawyer}} | ||
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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 | '''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 | 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== | ||