Walker Brothers (soap)

Walker Brothers was a pioneer soap manufacturer in the British colony of South Australia.

Thomas Moody Walker (c. 1801 – 22 March 1878) and his wife Mary Ann Walker, née Lamb, (c. 1813 – 15 April 1900) of Lincolnshire, England, emigrated to South Australia with their three children aboard Lord Goderich, arriving in April 1838.

He founded a candle factory in Wakefield Street, Adelaide (between Acland and Robert streets, neither now in existence) in 1840 and by 1841 was producing enough to advertise his wares,[1] and was making soap a few months later, the first in the field, though Burford's was making candles a few months earlier.

[2] In 1847 he gained a wine and beer licence for the Fountain Inn, on his property, adjacent to the factory, but after three years allowed it to lapse and converted the place for his private use.

[6] T. M. Moody was an adherent of the Order of Oddfellows for sixty years and held a high position in the Society.