John Walker (scholar)

John Walker (1692?–1741) was an English classical scholar, a collaborator of Richard Bentley.

Life

He was son of Thomas Walker of Huddersfield, and was educated, like Richard Bentley, at Wakefield School, where he was under Edward Clarke.^[1] He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 24 May 1710, at the age of seventeen.^[2] He was Craven scholar in 1712. He graduated B.A. in 1713, and was elected minor fellow on 28 September 1716. He took his M.A., and was elected socius major and sublector tertius in 1717.^[1]

In 1719 he went to Paris, as Bentley's emissary, to collect readings for a proposed Græco-Latin New Testament, which had been projected by Bentley about 1716.

Walker also collated a number of manuscripts of Archbishop William Wake. Altogether Walker seems to have collated some seventy-eight Greek manuscripts, containing the whole or parts of the New Testament.^[1]

Subsequently, he became dean and rector of

Walker was also chaplain to King George II. Walker died on 9 November 1741, at the age of 48.^[1]

Works

Walker made emendations of Cicero's