{{Short description|Prolific author of boys' adventure fiction}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Samuel Walkey | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1871|07|10|df=y}} | birth_place = Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|03|29|1871|07|10|df=y}} | death_place = Cliffden, Teignmouth, Devonshire, England | other_names = S. Walkey | occupation = Bank Official | years_active = 1895{{snd}}1939 | known_for = Boys' adventure fiction | notable_works = ''Rouges of the Fiery Cross'' }}
'''Samuel Walkey''' (10 July 1871{{snd}}29 March 1953) was an English bank inspector, who used his spare time when travelling to write, and became a prolific author of boy's adventure fiction. Walkey wrote at least sixteen novels and hundreds of magazine stories. He contributed stories to magazines for more than 40 years.
==Early life== Samuel Walkey was born on 10 July 1871<ref name=Walkey-1939>{{ cite book |last=National Archives |title=1939 Register; Reference: RG 101/6818FD: E.D. WFJA |date=1939-09-29 |publisher=National Archives |location=Kew }}</ref> at Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England. He was the son of Joshua Walkey (27 October 1828{{snd}}1884), a draper. Walkey entered the Devon and Cornwall Bank<ref name=Walkey-Promotion>{{ cite journal |title=Mr. Walkey's Departure |journal=Cornishman |issue=Thursday 10 December 1908 |pages=5 |date=1908-12-10 }}</ref> as a clerk at 16.<ref name="Losts-340">{{ cite book |last=Lofts |first=William Oliver Guillemont |author-link=W. O. G. Lofts |title=The Men Behind Boy's Fiction |chapter=Walkey, Samuel |pages=340 |date=1970 |publisher=Howard Baker |location=London |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/menbehindboysfic0000loft/page/340/mode/1up |accessdate=2020-02-07 |isbn=0093047703 }}</ref> He was a hard worker<ref name=Walkey-Promotion /> and was soon promoted.<ref name="Losts-340"/> The 1891 census found Walkey boarding with the White family at 26 Fore Street, in Torpoint, across the river from Plymouth.
==Adult life== Sometime in the 1890s he became a bank-inspector and had to travel all over the West Country.<ref name=Walkey-Promotion /> Walkey was already a bank-inspector when he married Kathleen Agnes White (27 March 1873{{snd}}15 June 1949),<ref name=Walkey-1939 /><ref name=Walkey-Kathleen>{{ cite journal |title=Birth, Marriages, & Deaths: Deaths |journal=Western Morning News |issue=Friday 17 June 1949 |pages=4 |date=1949-06-17 }}</ref> the daughter of draper Seymore White, whom Walkey was boarding with in Torpoint for the 1881 census. The couple were married at St. James's Church in Torpoint on 6 September 1897.<ref name=Walkey-Marriage>{{ cite book |last=St. James's Church |title=Cornwall, England, Parish Registers, 1538-2010 |chapter=Marriages solemnized in St Jame's in the Parish of Torpoint in the County of Cornwall in 1897 |pages=37 |publisher=Parish of Torpoint |location=Torpoint }}</ref>
The couple had three children: *Joyce Morwenna (26 July 1898{{snd}}3 February 1988),<ref name=Will-Joyce>{{ cite web |title=Wills and Probates 1858-1996: Pages for Towney and Year of Death 1988 |website=Find a Will Service |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Towney&yearOfDeath=1988&page=1#calendar |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> who was the executor of her father's will. *Howarth Seymour (13 May 1900{{snd}}20 August 1970),<ref name=Walkey-1939 /><ref name=Will-Howarth>{{ cite web |title=Wills and Probates 1858-1996: Pages for Walkey and Year of Death 1970 |website=Find a Will Service |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Walkey&yearOfDeath=1970&page=1#calendar |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> who pursued a Naval Career, passing the exam for the Osborne Naval College at age 14.<ref name=Walkey-Navy>{{ cite journal |title=Local and District News |journal=Western Times |issue=Monday 05 January 1914 |pages=3 |date=1914-01-05 }}</ref> and being appointed Rear Admiral in 1956. *John Christopher (18 October 1903{{snd}}6 October 1989),<ref name=Will-John>{{ cite web |title=Wills and Probates 1858-1996: Pages for Walkey and Year of Death 1989 |website=Find a Will Service |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Walkey&yearOfDeath=1989&page=1#calendar |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> who joined the Royal Engineers, held various command positions, including Engineer-in-Chief at the War Office, before retiring with the rank of Major General in 1957.<ref name=Who-John>{{ cite book |last=A. & C. Black Ltd. |title=Who Was Who: Volume VIII 1980-1990: A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Decade 1981-1990 |chapter=Walkey, Maj. Gen. John Christoper |volume=III |pages=785 |date=1991 |publisher=St Martin's Press |location=New York }}</ref><ref group=note>John was evacuated from the ''Empire Windrush'' just before she sank in 1954.</ref><ref name=Windrush>{{ cite journal |title=Troopship sinks while in tow |journal=Northern Whig |issue=Tuesday 30 March 1954 |pages=1 |date=1954-03-30 }}</ref>
Walkey was appointed branch manager of the Devon and Cornwall Bank in Penzance in 1901.<ref name=Walkey-Promotion /> The Devon and Cornwall Bank was acquired by Lloyds in 1906.<ref name=Walkey-Bank>{{ cite journal |title=Devon and Cornwall Bank: Amalgamated with Lloyds |journal=Cornishman |issue=Thursday 01 February 1906 |pages=1 |date=1906-02-01 }}</ref> In 1908 Walkey was promoted to be manager of the new Lloyds bank at Newton Abbot, and the 1911 census found him visiting his widowed mother at his brother-in-law's house in Manchester, still a bank manager with Lloyds. He was still at Newton Abbott as he was crediting to help resolve a dispute between Lloyds and the Urban District Council over highway encroachment by the bank.<ref name=Walkey-dispute>{{ cite journal |title=Newton Urban |journal=Exeter and Plymouth Gazette |issue=Tuesday 17 January 1911 |pages=6 |date=1911-01-17 }}</ref> Walkey left Newton Abbot in 1921.<ref name=Walkey-leaves>{{ cite journal |title=West of England News |journal=Western Morning News |issue=Monday 08 August 1921 |pages=3 |date=1921-08-08 }}</ref> In 1924, a press notice about a will for which he was executor says that he is with Lloyds Bank at Salisbury,<ref name=Walkey-executor>{{ cite journal |title=Admiral's Will |journal=Western Morning News |issue=Tuesday 19 August 1924 |pages=4 |date=1924-08-19 }}</ref> In the 1939 register Walkey records his profession as Staff Controller Lloyds Bank, retired.
==Writing== Lofts states that Walkey took up writing boy's stories to while away his evenings alone. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, a fellow Cornishman, saw his writing and introduced him to Max Pemberton, until recently the editor of ''Chums'' in 1895.<ref name="Losts-340"/> Adcock states that his wife encouraged him to start writing,<ref name=Walkey-Adcock>{{ cite web |last=Adcock |first=John |title=Samuel Walkey (1871-1953) |website=Yesterday's Papers |date=2010-11-05 |url=http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2010/11/samuel-walkey-1871-1953.html |accessdate=2020-05-11 }}</ref> but Walkey had his first serial in ''Chums'' two years before he got married.
Walkey wrote both boys' adventure fiction for a juvenile audience, and stirring romance fiction for an adult audience.<ref name=Walkey-Promotion /> However, by a huge measure, the bulk of his output was juvenile fiction. Adcock states that Walkey wrote two adult-oriented adventure novels for Cassell's,<ref name=Walkey-Adcock /> whereas Kemp and Mitchell state that Walkey ''published sixteen volumes of adventure fiction between 1897 and 1935.''<ref name=Kemp-425>{{ cite book |last1=Kemp |first1=Sandra |author-link=Sandra Kemp |last2=Mitchell |first2=Charlotte |last3=Trotter |first3=David |author-link3=David Trotter (academic) |title=Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion |chapter=Wynne, May |pages=425–426 |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}</ref> In many cases Walkey published his stories as serials first, and then as novels. For example, in April 1901 Cassell and Co. were advertising that ''With Redskins on the Warpath'' was starting in ''Chums'' (calling it ''a splendid new serial'').<ref name=Chums>{{ cite journal |title=Chums |journal=Croydon's Weekly Standard |issue=Saturday 27 April 1901 |pages=6 |date=1901-04-27 }}</ref> By October 1901 Cassell and Co were selling it as a book.<ref name=Cassell>{{ cite journal |title=Christmas Gift Books |journal=The Sphere |issue=Saturday 19 October 1901 |pages=2 |date=1901-10-19 }}</ref>
==Books== The following list of books is from the collated library catalogues on the Jisc Library Hub Discover site.<ref name=Jisc>{{ cite web |title=Search Results for Author; Walkey, S. |website=Library Hub Discover |url=https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?author=Walkey%2C+s.&title=&publisher=&publisher-place=&isn=&date=&subject=&map-scale=&keyword= |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> No titles by Walker were available on Project Gutenberg on 12 May 2020. Only three of his books are available in online versions, as noted below.
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+Books by Walkey ! No !! Year !! Title !! Illustrator !! Publisher !! Pages !! Notes |- | 2 || 1897 || In quest of Sheba's treasure : a perilous adventure by land and sea || G. Hutchinson || Frederick Warne, London || 320, 32 p., [5] plates plus 13 illustrations: ill., 20 cm. || <ref group=note>Available on-line at the British Library</ref><ref name=BL-Sheba>{{ cite book |last=Walkey |first=Samuel |title=In quest of Sheba's treasure : a perilous adventure by land and sea |date=1897 |publisher=Frederick Warne |location=London |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003EAD81 |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> |- | 1 || 1897 || 'Rogues of the Fiery cross' || Paul Hardy || Cassell & Co, London || cm.18 || <ref group=note>Available on-line at the British Library. This book was part of the standard stock of Boots Circulating Libraries in 1903.</ref><ref name=BL-Rogues>{{ cite book |last=Walkey |first=Samuel |title=Rogues of the Fiery Cross. A fighting tale of fighting days, etc |date=1897 |publisher=Cassell & Co. Ltd |location=London |url=http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003F5DC |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref><ref name=Boots>{{ cite book |last=Boots Book-lovers Library |title=Modern English Literature: A selection of the best known works circulated by Books Book-lovers Library with which is embodies a guide to popular works of fiction |chapter=Works of Fiction |pages=456 |date=1903 |publisher=Boots Book-lovers Library |location=Nottingham }}</ref> |- | 3 || 1899 || For the sake of the Duchesse : a page from the life of the Vicomte de Championnet || || J.W. Arrowsmith, Bristol || 409, [4] p., 19 cm. || <ref group=note>Adult Fiction. Three versions of this book are available online at the HathiTrust, and one of these versions is also available at the Internet Archive . This book was part of the standard stock of Boots Circulating Libraries in 1903.</ref><ref name=HT-Duchess>{{ cite book |last=Walkey |first=Samuel |title=For the sake of the Duchesse; a page from the life of the Vicomte de Championnet |date=1899 |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Company |location=New York |hdl=2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t31260g3m |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t31260g3m |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref><ref name=IA-Duchess>{{ cite book |last=Walkey |first=Samuel |title=For the sake of the Duchesse; a page from the life of the Vicomte de Championnet |date=1899 |publisher=Frederick A. Stokes Company |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/forsakeofduchess00walkrich/page/n6/mode/2up |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref><ref name=Boots /><ref name=Walkey-Adcock /> |- | 4 || 1901 || At Britain's call : dramas of a memorable year || || Cassell & Co, London || 127 p., 22 cm. || <ref group=note>Cassells Sixpenny Editions</ref><ref name=Call>{{ cite journal |title=Cassell's Sixpenny Editions |journal=Mid Sussex Times |issue=Tuesday 25 August 1903 |pages=4 |date=1903-08-25 }}</ref> |- | 5 || 1901 || With Redskins on the Warpath || || Cassell & Co, London || vii, 280 pages, 8 fp plates, (8º) || |- | 6 || 1904 || The Lovers of Lorraine: a romance || || Cassell & Co, London || viii. 328 pages, (8º) || <ref group=note>Adult Fiction</ref><ref name=Walkey-Adcock /> |- | 7 || 1906 || Kidnapped by pirates || Paul Hardy || Frederick Warne, London || ix, 299 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations, 19 cm. || |- | 8 || 1910 || Yo-ho! for the Spanish main : a story of adventure among pirates || Archibald Webb || Cassell & Co, London || 311 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of col plates : illustrations, 22 cm || |- | 9 || 1914 || Wolf-on-the-Trail: a tale of adventure among Redskins, etc. || C. Dudley Tennant || Cassell & Co, London || vi, 309 pages, (8º) || |- | 10 || 1919 || In quest of a kingdom || || Cassell & Co, London || 318 pages, 4 plates : illustrations, 22 cm || <ref group=note>Cassell's empire library for boys and girls</ref> |- | 11 || 1920 || Hurrah! for Merry Sherwood, etc. || C. E. Brock || Cassell & Co, London || 312 pages, (8º) || <ref group=note>Cassell's empire library for boys and girls</ref> |- | 12 || 1921 || For Drake and Merrie England: a rousing story of the days of Good Queen Bess and the sea-dogs of old England || || Cassell & Co, London || 280 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (1 col.), 19 cm. || |- | 13 || 1928 || The Pirates of El Dorado || || Aldine, London || (8º) || <ref group=note>Aldine Adventure Library. no. 16.</ref> |- | 14 || 1931 || The adventures of Jack-a-Lantern || Alfred Elmore, Charles Monnet, Charles Louis Müller || The Sheldon Press, London || vi, 314p., 5 plates : illus. (some col.), 19 cm. || <ref group=note>The work of famous painters was used to illustrate the book, rather than having an illustrator in the usual way.</ref> |- | 15 || 1935 || When the Vikings came || || Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, London || || <ref group=note>Publisher identity from Abe Books, as not in Jisc catalogue.</ref> |- | 16 || 1935 || The treasure of Pirates' Island || || SPCK, London || 287 pages, (8º) || |- | 17 || 1936 || General Gordon, 1833-1885 || || A. Wheaton, Exeter || 52 pages : illustrations, frontispiece (portrait), 19 cm. || <ref group=note>Makers of history no. 15</ref> |}
===Example of illustrations for a Walkey book=== Paul Hardy was frequently an illustrator for Walkey after he illustrated ''Rogues of the Fiery Cross''. This was Walkey's second serial story, and the second novel he published. It appeared in Chums in the 1896{{snd}}1897 volume and it was a huge success. It was illustrated by Hardy, as was almost all of Walkey's subsequent work in Chums.<ref name=Losts-340/> The story was almost immediately published as a book by Cassell & Co., London in 1897 with sixteen full-page illustrations (courtesy of the British Library,<ref name=BL-Rogues /> as shown below:
<gallery mode="packed-hover" heights="150"> File:01 I caught him by the collar-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|I caught him by the collar File:02 One caught me roughly by the throat-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|One caught me roughly by the throat File:03 He drew a knife-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|He drew a knife File:04 His sword came swinging down-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|His sword came swinging down File:05 Turn over- he cried-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|Turn over- he cried File:06 A ship lay in the lagoon-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|A ship lay in the lagoon File:07 The two hurtled up and down-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|The two hurtled up and down File:08 He wore a ceaseless grin-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|He wore a ceaseless grin File:09 They burst up the stairs-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|They burst up the stairs File:10 He drew a pistol and pulled the trigger-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|He drew a pistol and pulled the trigger File:11 He flung his rapier round and round-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|He flung his rapier round and round File:12 He stabbed the second man-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|He stabbed the second man File:13 The Dutchman fought with desperate fury-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|The Dutchman fought with desperate fury File:14 The heavy wood dropped backwards-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|The heavy wood dropped backwards File:15 My fathers hands were tight upon his throat-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|My fathers hands were tight upon his throat File:16 The ship came nearer and nearer-Illustration by Paul Hardy for Rogues of the Fiery Cross by Samuel Walkey-Courtesy of British Library.jpg|The ship came nearer and nearer </gallery>
==Magazine stories== The following list shows Walkey's publications in Magazines from November 1907, some twelve years after his first known serial in 1895. Walkey averaged just under ten stories a year from 1908 to 1917, so a full list would probably list another one hundred stories. Most of the stories are juvenile fiction, but some of the stories are intended for an adult audience. {| class="wikitable sortable" |+Stories by Walkey from November 1907 as listed in Steve Holland's British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index<ref name=Juvenile>{{ cite web |last=Holland |first=Steve |title=Introduction |website=British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index |date=2019-08-25 |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/BJSP/0start.htm |accessdate=2020-05-12 }}</ref> ! No !! Year !! Magazine !! Title of Story !! Type !! Date (of 1st pt.) |- | 1 || 1907 || Chums || Trapped by the Enemy: A Story of the Indian Frontier || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 20 Nov 1907 |- | 2 || 1908 || Chums || Comrades in Peril || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Jan 1908 |- | 3 || 1908 || Chums || The Finnish Terror: A Complete Tale of Wild Peril in the Forest of Finland || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 17 Jun 1908 |- | 4 || 1908 || The Story-teller || The Shadow of the Guillotine || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | Jun 1908 |- | 5 || 1908 || Chums || The Ghost of the Haunted Abbey || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Jul 1908 |- | 6 || 1908 || Chums || Chased by Wolves || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Aug 1908 |- | 7 || 1909 || The Story-teller || When Terror Reigned || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Jan 1909 |- | 8 || 1909 || The New Magazine (UK) || A Mission of Shame || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Dec 1909 |- | 9 || 1910 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Executioner from Paris || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Feb 1910 |- | 10 || 1910 || The Story-teller || Sir Comely's Adventure || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Aug 1910 |- | 11 || 1911 || The Story-teller || Where Love Is Deathless || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Jan 1911 |- | 12 || 1911 || The Story-teller || The Day of Reckoning || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | Feb 1911 |- | 13 || 1911 || The New Magazine (UK) || Sweet Rose of England || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Apr 1911 |- | 14 || 1911 || The New Magazine (UK) || Dan of the Irish Brigade || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Sep 1911 |- | 15 || 1911 || Chums || The Lion of Koom-Panda || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 25 Oct 1911 |- | 16 || 1911 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Enemy in the House || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1911 |- | 17 || 1911 || Chums || Hurrah! For Merry Sherwood || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Nov 1911 |- | 18 || 1912 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || The Land of His Fathers || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Apr 1912 |- | 19 || 1912 || Chums || Hugo the Terrible || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 18 May 1912 |- | 20 || 1912 || Chums || The Sea-Dogs of England || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 01 Jun 1912 |- | 21 || 1912 || Chums || The Mystery Men of the Reign of Terror || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Jun 1912 |- | 22 || 1912 || Chums || On the War-Trail || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Jun 1912 |- | 23 || 1912 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || All the World Loves a Lover || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | Jun 1912 |- | 24 || 1912 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Outcast || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | Aug 1912 |- | 25 || 1912 || Chums || The Bloodhounds of Spain || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 14 Sep 1912 |- | 26 || 1912 || Chums || When the Redskins Were Out || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Oct 1912 |- | 27 || 1912 || Chums || One of Nelson's Heroes || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 26 Oct 1912 |- | 28 || 1912 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || Thadee and Clon of the Irish Brigade || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1912 |- | 29 || 1913 || Chums || Crossbones Island || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 04 Jan 1913 |- | 30 || 1913 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || The Last of Her Race || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | May 1913 |- | 31 || 1913 || Chums || Marooned on Drowned Island || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 21 Jun 1913 |- | 32 || 1913 || The New Magazine (UK) || Blood Money || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Aug 1913 |- | 33 || 1913 || Chums || The Two Jack-a-Lanterns || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 13 Sep 1913 |- | 34 || 1913 || Chums || The Adventure of the Chateau Noir || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 20 Sep 1913 |- | 35 || 1913 || Chums || A Night of Peril || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 27 Sep 1913 |- | 36 || 1913 || Chums || The Fight in the Snow || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 04 Oct 1913 |- | 37 || 1913 || Chums || The Traitor Aristocrat || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 11 Oct 1913 |- | 38 || 1913 || Chums || An Adventure with Captain Barleycorn || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 18 Oct 1913 |- | 39 || 1913 || The Story-teller || The Great Adventure || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1913 |- | 40 || 1913 || Chums || Exiles in Peril || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 13 Dec 1913 |- | 41 || 1913 || The Story-teller || The Prisoner of War || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Dec 1913 |- | 42 || 1914 || Chums || The War-Whoop of the Redskins || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 21 Mar 1914 |- | 43 || 1914 || The Story-teller || The Firebrand of La Vendée || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Aug 1914 |- | 44 || 1914 || Chums || Captain Swing || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Sep 1914 |- | 45 || 1915 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || The Red Dawn || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Apr 1915 |- | 46 || 1915 || Chums || A Blow for Britain || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1 May 1915 |- | 47 || 1915 || Chums || For Drake and Merrie England || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Jun 1915 |- | 48 || 1915 || Chums || The Spanish Pirate || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 28 Aug 1915 |- | 49 || 1915 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Honour of Benbow Brooke || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Aug 1915 |- | 50 || 1916 || Chums || In Quest of a Kingdom || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 15 Jan 1916 |- | 51 || 1916 || The Story-teller || Where the Heart Leads || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | Jan 1916 |- | 52 || 1916 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Little Methodist || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Feb 1916 |- | 53 || 1916 || Chums || Rimington's Bungalow || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 29 Apr 1916 |- | 54 || 1916 || Chums || On the Trail of the Head-Hunters || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 6 May 1916 |- | 55 || 1916 || Chums || The Dwarfs of the Enchanted Mountains || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 13 May 1916 |- | 56 || 1916 || Chums || The Ape-Men of the Pool || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 20 May 1916 |- | 57 || 1916 || Chums || Hoist with His Own Petard || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 27 May 1916 |- | 58 || 1916 || Chums || A Great Adventure || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 03 Jun 1916 |- | 59 || 1916 || Chums || Under the Black Flag || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 16 Sep 1916 |- | 60 || 1917 || Chums || The Fugitives || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 24 Feb 1917 |- | 61 || 1917 || The Story-teller || The House of Ghosts || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Feb 1917 |- | 62 || 1917 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Sword of Mahomet || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | May 1917 |- | 63 || 1917 || Chums || The Secret of the Cordillera || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 16 Jun 1917 |- | 64 || 1917 || Chums || The Ravine of Death! || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 23 Jun 1917 |- | 65 || 1917 || Chums || The Giant Sloth || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 30 Jun 1917 |- | 66 || 1917 || Chums || Wild Riders of the Plains || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 07 Jul 1917 |- | 67 || 1917 || Chums || Trapped in a Lost City! || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 14 Jul 1917 |- | 68 || 1917 || Chums || The Temple of Mystery and Terror || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 21 Jul 1917 |- | 69 || 1917 || Chums || Spanish Reef || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 20 Oct 1917 |- | 70 || 1917 || Chums || Christmas Chivalry || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Dec 1917 |- | 71 || 1918 || Chums || When the Guillotine Reigned || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Jan 1918 |- | 72 || 1918 || Chums || Dead Men Tell No Tales || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 27 Apr 1918 |- | 73 || 1918 || Chums || The Pirates of Skeleton Island || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 20 Jul 1918 |- | 74 || 1918 || Chums || On the Trail of the Master-Spy || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 14 Sep 1918 |- | 75 || 1918 || Chums || The Chateau of Mystery || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 21 Sep 1918 |- | 76 || 1918 || Chums || Traitors and Wolves || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 28 Sep 1918 |- | 77 || 1918 || Chums || Forty Thieves || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 05 Oct 1918 |- | 78 || 1918 || Chums || The Death Knell! || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Oct 1918 |- | 79 || 1918 || Chums || A Duel to the Death || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Oct 1918 |- | 80 || 1918 || The New Magazine (UK) || In the Cloisters || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1918 |- | 81 || 1918 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Rat || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | Nov 1918 |- | 82 || 1919 || Chums || The Pearl Stealers || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 04 Jan 1919 |- | 83 || 1919 || Chums || On the Trail of the Sea Wolf || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 25 Jan 1919 |- | 84 || 1919 || Chums || King of the Outlaws || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Mar 1919 |- | 85 || 1919 || Chums || Phantom Jack || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 31 May 1919 |- | 86 || 1920 || Chums || The Night Rovers || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 24 Jan 1920 |- | 87 || 1920 || Chums || The Queen's Champion || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | 15 May 1920 |- | 88 || 1920 || Chums || Sea Kings and Sea Wolves || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 18 Sep 1920 |- | 89 || 1921 || Chums || Nearly Guillotined! || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 13 Aug 1921 |- | 90 || 1921 || Chums || The Adventures of Jack-a-Lantern || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 17 Sep 1921 |- | 91 || 1921 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || Pendragon of Pendragon || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Nov 1921 |- | 92 || 1921 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Keys of Heaven || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Dec 1921 |- | 93 || 1922 || Chums || Redskins on the War-Trail || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 18 Mar 1922 |- | 94 || 1922 || Cassell's Magazine of Fiction || The Wolf || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | Mar 1922 |- | 95 || 1922 || Chums || Dead Men's Cave || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 29 Apr 1922 |- | 96 || 1922 || Chums || The Pirates of Cathay || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 22 Jul 1922 |- | 97 || 1922 || The New Magazine (UK) || Wild Justice || Novelette || style="text-align: left;" | Jul 1922 |- | 98 || 1922 || Chums || When the Vikings Came || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 16 Sep 1922 |- | 99 || 1922 || The Corner Magazine || Thirty Pieces of Silver || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1922 |- | 100 || 1923 || Chums || Island of Flames || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 13 Jan 1923 |- | 101 || 1923 || Chums || The Ghost Tower || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 May 1923 |- | 102 || 1923 || Chums || The White Shark || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 28 Jul 1923 |- | 103 || 1923 || Chums || Captives in El Dorado || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 15 Sep 1923 |- | 104 || 1923 || Chums || The Night Riders || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 29 Dec 1923 |- | 105 || 1924 || Chums || Kidnapped and Marooned || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 22 Mar 1924 |- | 106 || 1924 || Chums || Sea-Wolves of the Main || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 02 Aug 1924 |- | 107 || 1924 || Chums || The Sword of Tallifer Trueblade || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 14 Sep 1924 |- | 108 || 1924 || Chums || The Robber Baron || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 28 Dec 1924 |- | 109 || 1925 || Chums || Flame-Beard's Treasure || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Mar 1925 |- | 110 || 1925 || Chums || The Bloodhound from Paris || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 07 Jun 1925 |- | 111 || 1925 || Chums || Dungeon and Rack || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 06 Sep 1925 |- | 112 || 1926 || Chums || Powder-Monkey Jack || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 14 Feb 1926 |- | 113 || 1926 || Chums || Pirate Sink-or-Burn || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Sep 1926 |- | 114 || 1927 || Chums || Marooned || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 30 Jan 1927 |- | 115 || 1927 || The Story-teller || The Secret Château || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Mar 1927 |- | 116 || 1927 || The New Magazine (UK) || The Angel of the Prison || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | May 1927 |- | 117 || 1928 || Chums || The Return of “Jack-a-Lantern” || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 08 Mar 1928 |- | 118 || 1928 || Chums || The Night of the Swords || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 15 Mar 1928 |- | 119 || 1928 || Chums || The Lost Ones of the Lonely Chateau || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 22 Mar 1928 |- | 120 || 1928 || Chums || The Vengeance of the Blue Light || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 29 Mar 1928 |- | 121 || 1928 || Chums || The Executioner from Rouen || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 05 Apr 1928 |- | 122 || 1928 || Chums || The Outwitting of the Bloodhound || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 12 Apr 1928 |- | 123 || 1928 || Chums || The Secret Castle || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Apr 1928 |- | 124 || 1928 || Chums || To Rescue the King || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 26 Apr 1928 |- | 125 || 1928 || Aldine Adventure Library || The Pirates of El Dorado || Novel || style="text-align: left;" | #16 1928 |- | 126 || 1929 || The Story-teller || The Raven || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Apr 1929 |- | 127 || 1929 || Cassell's Magazine || The Dancer and the Guillotine || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | May 1929 |- | 128 || 1929 || The Story-teller || The Lonely Inn || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Oct 1929 |- | 129 || 1929 || Chums || Rogues of the “Roaring Glory” || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 03 Dec 1929 |- | 130 || 1930 || The New Magazine (UK) || Red Dawn || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | Apr 1930 |- | 131 || 1931 || Chums || Drake Goes West! || Serial Story || style="text-align: left;" | 27 Oct 1931 |- | 132 || 1934 || Chums || Nelson's Peril || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Jul 1934 |- | 133 || 1935 || Chums || Near the Shadow of the Guillotine || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Feb 1935 |- | 134 || 1935 || Chums || Bowmen of Sherwood || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Apr 1935 |- | 135 || 1935 || Chums || Redskins on the War Trail! || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Jun 1935 |- | 136 || 1935 || Chums || Marooned on Rover Island || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 19 Jul 1935 |- | 137 || 1936 || Chums Annual || Captain Crossbones’ Treasure || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1937 Annual |- | 138 || 1936 || Chums Annual || The Decoy Ship || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1938 Annual |- | 139 || 1936 || Chums Annual || In Quest of Black Solomon || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1939 Annual |- | 140 || 1936 || Chums Annual || Red Falcon's Last Fight || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1940 Annual |- | 141 || 1936 || Chums Annual || The Three Sea Wolves || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1941 Annual |- | 142 || 1936 || Chums Annual || Three Skulls Island || Short Story || style="text-align: left;" | 1942 Annual |- | 143 || 1939 || Chums Annual || The Treasure of Pirates’ Island || Novella || style="text-align: left;" | 1943 Annual |}
==Later life== Walkey's promotions at Lloyds had taken him from the West Country, but he returned there when he retired,<ref name="Losts-340"/> settling at Westcliffe Road in Dawlish, Devonshire, England. Kathleen died first, on 15 June 1949.<ref name=Walkey-Kathleen /> Walkey himself followed four years later, dying on 29 March 1953 in Teignmouth, Devonshire.<ref name=Will-Walkey>{{ cite web |title=Wills and Probates 1858-1996: Pages for Walkey and Year of Death 1953 |website=Find a Will Service |url=https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Walkey&yearOfDeath=1953&page=1#calendar |accessdate=2020-05-05 }}</ref>
==Assessment== Turner states that ''Chums'' was chiefly remembered (when he was writing in 1948) for the pirate stories of Walkey and others. He notes that Walkey contributed his ''fast-moving tales of villainy'' for more than thirty years.<ref name=Turner>{{ cite book |last=Turner |first=E. S |title=Boys will be Boys: The Story of Sweeny Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton et al. |chapter=VI: Not so Callow |pages=unpaginated e-book |date=2012 |publisher=Faber and Faber |location=London }}</ref> Cullingford noted that writers like Walkey had a large and devoted following.<ref name=Cull-78>{{cite book|author=Cedric Cullingford|title=Children's Literature and its Effects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KojlUa--V4AC&pg=PA78|accessdate=2020-05-12|date=2000-11-01|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-84714-047-0|page=78}}</ref> ''The Cornishman'' noted that his stories were ''read with zest by the boys of England''.<ref name=Walkey-Promotion />
Thomas told how on a visit to a boarding school, he had asked the boys if they had ever heard of Walkey; ''A shout went up{{snd}}"Rather!".'' Thomas said that his own reputation was increased merely because he could tell boys a little bit about Walkey.<ref name=Spanish>{{ cite journal |last=Herbert |first=Thomas |title=One and All Notes: Yo-Ho! for the Spanish Main |journal=Cornishman |issue=Thursday 27 October 1910 |pages=4 |date=1910-10-27 }}</ref> Perhaps Walkey is best assessed by his impact. Geoffrey Trease wrote that Walkey's ''Hurrah for Merry Sherwood!'' was his favourite story, and that it was therefore not surprising that the first boys' story he wrote was ''Bows against the Barons'' (1934).<ref name=Trease-24>{{ cite book |last=Trease |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Trease |title=Tales out of School |pages=24 |date=1948 |publisher=The New Education Book Club |location=London }}</ref> Trease's boyhood impression of the French Revolution were all gained from a Walkey story about the reign of terror. He re-read the story and concluded that Walkey ''wrote quite well''.<ref name=Trease-127>{{ cite book |last=Trease |first=Geoffrey |author-link=Geoffrey Trease |title=Tales out of School |pages=127 |date=1948 |publisher=The New Education Book Club |location=London }}</ref> In a tongue-in-cheek review of ''Yo Ho! for the Spanish Main'', Herbert advised boys not to buy the book as it would take away their ''appetite for cube root and the least common denominator and the pluperfect tense.'' He maintained that Mr. Walkey and his publisher were ''not sedate enough companions for the young not a sedate enough companion for the young.''<ref name=Spanish /> <!--without access to the citation; it's hard to know if this is an error of duplication or what the quote says-->
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