Lorna E. M. Walker

Lorna Esmé Margery Walker was a British historian and an Honorary Senior Mediaeval History Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. She had retired in 1991, and lived in St Andrews until her death in 2023.

Early life Walker was born in London, but lived in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1940 until 1943. There she attended the Micklefield School. Walker later attended the Wimbledon High School for Girls in London.

Education In 1948 Walker began an Undergraduate degree in History and French at the University of St Andrews. During her studies she stayed in University Hall. Throughout her studies Walker received multiple prizes for her achievements, including the Miller and Low prizes. In her final year she was a research assistant to Robin Adam in researching the historic papers of Dunrobin Castle. Walker started teaching at the university in 1961.

In 1976 Walker was made a Freeman, and in 1986 a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths. She was also a member of the Selden Society and of the London Record Society.

Publications Walker has contributed to the book The North Sea World: Studies in the Cultural History of North-Western Europe in the Middle Ages. In 1975 Walker contributed to Early History of the Goldsmiths' Company, 1327-1509: Including the Book of Ordinances, 1478-88, a volume on the history of the Goldsmiths’ Company.

Walker's publications include titles At the Feet of St Stephen Muret: Henry II and the Order of Grandmont redivivus; Fighting Knights and Sirens: Monreale and the Art of the Cloister; and Culture and Contacts in the Scottish Romanesque. She has also published articles in English and in French on the Order of Savigny, its records and its holy men.