He attended Scots College in Ballarat before his father was appointed Minister of the Central Congregationalist Church in Ipswich.

Upon leaving school he attended the University of Sydney where he graduated with honours for both a BA and LL.B.

[1] He was a director of Ipswich Woollen Co., South British Insurance Co. in Brisbane, and Medical and Surgical Requisites Ltd.[2] On the 27th Sep 1905 he married Vera Bridson Cribb (died 1963),[3] the daughter of former Ipswich member, Thomas Bridson Cribb[3] and they had three sons and one daughter.

He died in November 1939 in Ipswich and was Cremated at Mt Thompson Crematorium.

[1] Walker, the CPNP candidate, won the seat of Ipswich in the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1929.