Walker, WILLIAM SIDNEY

Walker, WILLIAM SIDNEY, Shakespearean scholar, was born at Pembroke in 1795, had his education at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, became fellow thereof, and died, after a life far from fortunate, in 1846. His name survives through the remarkable value of his Shakespeare's Versification (1852), and Critical Examination of the Text of Shakespeare (3 vols. 1859), both edited anonymously by W. N. Lettsom. His Poetical Remains appeared in 1852, with a memoir by the Rev. J. Moultrie the poet.