Harry Walker (politician)

Harry Frederick Walker (15 April 1873 – 23 October 1950) was an Australian company director and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

[clarification needed] He was a miner and engine-driver in 1890 and in 1897 was part of the Light Horse Jubilee Contingent in London.

He fought in the Boer War and by 1906 was the chairman of the Murarrie Bacon Factory and a director of the Wide Bay Cooperative Dairy Co.

In 1903, Walker had acquired a farm at Coles Creek, Gympie and by 1920 he was a farmer at Tewantin.

[3][4] Walker was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for almost 40 years, most of them in opposition to successive Labor governments.