# Edith Mary Walker

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Mary_Walker
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edith_Mary_Walker.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Mary_Walker
> Source revision: 1217192953
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|British archaeologist (1903–1970)}}
'''Edith Mary''' "'''Molly'''" '''Walker''' {{post-nominals|country=UK|FSA}} (11 December 1903&ndash;14 December 1970) was a British archaeologist.<ref name='obit'>{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/YAJ0421970/page/518/mode/2up |title=Obituary: Miss E M Walker |date=1971 |journal=Yorkshire Archaeological Journal |volume=42 |issue=168 |page=519}}</ref>

==Biography==
Walker was born in Leeds to parents David and Mary Elizabeth. Her father was a clergyman, variously a vicar in Burley, Darlington, and [Kirkby Fleetham](/source/Kirkby_Fleetham). In 1923 the family moved to [Ripon](/source/Ripon). After her education in Polam School and Paris, her first major interest in a historical subject was with a series of 18th Century letters owned by her aunt relating to [Rev George Paxton](/source/George_Paxton_(minister)), which she transcribed for the [Thoresby Society](/source/Thoresby_Society) in 1936. Walker subsequently joined the [Yorkshire Archaeological Society](/source/Yorkshire_Archaeological_Society).<ref name='obit' />

In 1944 she became Honorary Secretary of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and served in this role for ten years. Walker participated in excavations, including at [Almondbury](/source/Almondbury) under [W. J. Varley](/source/W._J._Varley),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://huddersfield.exposed/book/2441#page/n1/mode/2up/search/walker |author1=W. J. Varley |title=Castle Hill, Almondbury, Excavation Committee - Report of the First Year's Excavations (1939) |date=1939 |page=1}}</ref> Aldborough, and [Well](/source/Well%2C_North_Yorkshire). Walker resigned from the Roman Antiquities Committee in May 1954 and, in April 1958, was elected as Honorary General Secretary of the Society.<ref name='obit' /> 

Correspondence between Walker and [Mary Kitson Clark](/source/Mary_Kitson_Clark) is included in an archive of Clark's work at the [University of Leeds](/source/University_of_Leeds).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/multimedia/22882/YAS_MS1267.pdf |title=Mary Kitson-Clark (Mrs Chitty) |publisher=University of Leeds |accessdate=2 February 2023}}</ref> Walker is elsewhere described as a close friend of Clark, from whom she took over the role of secretary of the Roman Antiquities Section.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://archive.org/details/YAJ0772005/page/272/mode/2up?q=walker |title=A CENTURY OF YORKSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY 1900-2000: THE KITSON CLARKS OF MEANWOODSIDE AND BEYOND |author1=C. Stephen Briggs |date=2005 |journal=Yorkshire Archaeological Journal |volume=77 |pages=263-281}}</ref>

Walker was elected as a Fellow of the [Society of Antiquaries of London](/source/Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London) in May 1949.<ref name='obit' />

==Select publications==
*Walker, E. M. (1952). ''Stephen Proctor; the Builder of Fountains Hall''.

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Walker, Edith Mary}}

Category:1903 births
Category:1970 deaths
Category:British women classical scholars
Category:British women archaeologists
Category:People from Ripon
Category:Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edith Mary Walker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Mary_Walker) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Mary_Walker?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.