Thomas William Walker

Thomas William Walker, ONZM (2 July 1916 – 8 November 2010) was an Anglo-New Zealand soil scientist.

[2] Born in Shepshed, Leicestershire, he was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and the Royal College of Science.

He continued his career at Rothamsted Experimental Station, University of Manchester and for the National Agricultural Advisory Service.

In 1952, he emigrated to New Zealand, to become the first professor of soil science at Canterbury Agricultural College.

He returned to Britain in 1958, but came back in 1960, to his old job at the soon to be renamed Lincoln College, New Zealand.