Reginald Henry Walker M.B.E.

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1891 Census (age 1 mo.) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hamsptead with parents, 4 siblings and 5 servants. Unnamed at time of census.

1901 Census (age 10) living at 42 Elsworthy Rd, Hampstead with parents, 5 siblings and 4 servants.

1911 Census (age 20) living as son at 42 Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, S Hampstead N W with parents, 2xsister, and 3 servants. Single, occupation is Organ Building. This gives second name as Henry.

London Gazette; 14 Feb 1928;
J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd. Special Resolutions. Passed 19th Jan 1928. Confirmed 9th Feb 1928. (Paraphrase); At an EGM special resolutions were passed;
1.That it is desirable to reconstruct the company and accordingly that the company be wound up voluntarily; and that JAMES HUBERT PHIPPS WALKER and REGINALD HENRY WALKER, both the Francis Works, Southfield Road, Acton, in the County of Middlesex, be and they are hereby appointed liquidators, for the purposes of such winding-up.
2.That the said liquidators be and they are hereby authorised to consent to the registration of a new company to be called J.W.Walker & Sons Limited with a memorandum and articles which have already been prepared
3.That the draft agreement is approved etc. etc.
Signed; EMILY F WALKER, Chairman.

The company is still going http://www.jwwalker.co.uk/history.html ; "The firm was founded by Joseph William Walker (1802-1870) who was a 'parlour' apprentice to George Pike England. In 1828 JWW established his own business in Soho, London, moving later to Francis Street, Tottenham Court Road. Following his death, the firm was continued by his youngest and only surviving son, John James Walker.
The Walker family continued to manage the firm until the death of Reginald Walker MBE, grandson of JWW. In 1975 the Firm was reformed under management of Robert Pennells, a previous employee, who removed it from London to a new and well-equipped premises and revived the company's fortunes not least by the production of new mechanical action instruments. In this he was joined by his son, Andrew Pennells, who had been apprenticed to Klais Orgelbau in Bonn, Germany and who introduced many technical innovations.
Alas, Andrew Pennells died tragically young in 1999. After the retirement of Robert Pennells, Sebastian Meakin, who had been a Walker apprentice and had also had training in Germany, assumed leadership of the firm in 2005."