title: John Walker (cricketer, born 1826)
text: John Walker (15 September 1826 – 14 August 1885) was an English cricketer.
  
  Walker was born in Palmers Green, the eldest of seven cricket playing brothers and four sisters - known historically as The Walkers of Southgate. He was educated in Stanmore and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He played as a right-handed batsman and an underarm right-arm slow bowler for Cambridge University (1846–1849), Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) (1847–1863), a Middlesex XI (1850–1863) and Middlesex County Cricket Club (1864–1866).
  
  His family owned a large estate at Arnos Grove and he founded the John Walker Cricket Ground, in Waterfall Road, Southgate. It is run today by the Walker Trust.
  
  William Buttress, a fellow cricketer, was financially supported by Walker at certain times (due to the former's precarious career).
  
  Walker died at Arnos Grove in 1885, aged 58.
  
  References
  
  External links
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   Cricket Archive
  
  1826 births
  1885 deaths
  English cricketers
  Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
  Cambridge University cricketers
  Middlesex cricketers
  People from Palmers Green
  Cricketers from the London Borough of Enfield
  Gentlemen of the South cricketers
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  Gentlemen cricketers
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  Cricketers from Greater London
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  All-England Eleven cricketers