About John Walker
Lived 1692 – 1741 (aged 48–49). John Walker was an English and British philologist and classical scholar.
John Walker (1692/3–1741) was an English classical scholar, a collaborator of Richard Bentley.
Life He was son of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, and was educated, like Richard Bentley, at Wakefield School, where he was under Edward Clarke. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 24 May 1710, at the age of seventeen. He was Craven scholar in 1712. He graduated B.A. in 1713, and was elected minor fellow on 28 September 1716. He took his M.A., and was elected socius major and sublector tertius in 1717.
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English classical scholar, born 1692
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