Walter Gibson Walford M.D.

  Notes:

Wendy;The Mrs W G Walford of Hampstead at Rands funeral was Mrs Walter Gilson Walford. She is 'our' Sarah Holbrook daughter of Thomas Holbrook. Details from marriage licence 26 April 1901 St James Paddington:: Walter Gilson Walford aged 62 widower of 120 Finchley Road Hampstead- physician son of Humphrey Thomas Walford (Dec) Clerk in Holy Orders and Sarah Fannie Holbrook Spinster aged 48 of 190 Gloucester Terrace, d of Thomas Holbrook (dec).

Found him on 1901 census, Widower, 62, retired Physician. With his 3 children (one son medical student, other articled to a patent agent) and a servant in Hampstead.

Author of "Cerebral congestion and tight neck-clothing: an insidious cause for many disorders" 1910 !

Wendy; Walter died 4 April 1924 Probate granted to Eric Weston Walford, Patent Agent and G W Rands (qv). Left £62,901.9.6



Wendy; Have found newspaper article on Walter's son from his first marriage - Eric Weston Walford. He was a famous aviation and motoring pioneer. He committed suicide in his car on the roadside by the exhaust method in 1936. He left a note had been suffering from insomnia since 1912 and failing eyesight and couldn't stand it any more. He left over £23,000.

Eric was author of 'Early Days Of The British Motorcycle Industry' 1932.

Walter married Sarah Ann Holbrook, daughter of Thomas Holbrook and Sarah Ann Wright, on 26 Apr 1901 in St James', Paddington, London. (Sarah Ann Holbrook was born in 1852 in Leamington, Warwickshire, christened on 25 Sep 1853 in St.John The Baptist, Shoreditch, London and died on 28 Nov 1913 in 'Dunelm', 120 Finchley Road, London.)