Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker

[4] Walker became a member of the Anthropological Society of London in 1864 and contributed many objects from the Republic of Congo, Porto Novo (capital of Benin) and Gabon.

[4] Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker was born on Friday 8 June 1832 at Gosden Green, Prinstead, Westbourne, Sussex.

Midshipman Henry Walker saw action on many occasions during and after the Napoleonic Wars; most notably aboard the Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

In 1851 Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker gained employment with the Liverpool-based shipping and trading company of Hatton and Cookson.

Walker soon returned to the Gabon charged with the task of establishing a new trading station or 'factory' on behalf of Hatton and Cookson at Libreville.

By this time Bruce Walker had become dissatisfied with his lot with Hatton and Cookson and set about finding new means of earning a living.

In the autumn of 1876 he set out for Marseilles via Paris with the intention of investing in an ice skating rink business but soon ran into financial difficulties.

[9] Robert Bruce Napoleon Walker died at 14 Osbourne Terrace, Clapham Road, London on 9 March 1901 suffering from circulatory problems and sepsis.

He was buried at Brompton Cemetery, London on 13 March, sharing the same grave plot as his first wife Margaret and brother-in-law Thomas Hooper Molesworth.