John Walter (editor, born 1818)

John Walter III (8 October 1818 – 3 November 1894) was an English newspaper publisher and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1847 and 1885.

He was a man of scholarly tastes and serious religious views, and his conscientious character had a marked influence on the tone of the paper.

It was under him that the successive improvements in the printing machinery, begun by his father in 1814, at last reached the stage of the "Walter Press" in 1869, the pioneer of modern newspaper printing-presses.

[5] Though defeated in 1865, John Walter III was again elected to Parliament for Berkshire in 1868, and held the seat until he retired in 1885.

[1] His eldest son by his first marriage, John, was accidentally drowned at Bearwood[2] on Christmas Eve in 1870, while trying to rescue his brother and cousin.