William Walker, 1st Baron Wavertree

William Hall Walker, 1st Baron Wavertree DL (25 December 1856 – 2 February 1933) was a British businessman, Conservative Party politician, art collector, and an important figure in thoroughbred racehorse breeding.

Walker's father was a wealthy brewer who was born in Ayrshire and expanded the family business into England, moving to Gateacre, Liverpool.

[3] In late 1915, Walker offered to sell Tully to the British Government and to include his bloodstock as a gift in order to establish a national stud.

The British Government paid Walker £47,625 for the stud and received as a gift six stallions, 43 brood mares, 29 yearlings and two-year-olds, and 300 shorthorn cattle.

Walker acquired a substantial collection of his own, among them the painting View of Killarney with the Passage to the Upper Lake by William Ashford, one of Ireland's leading landscape artists.

In his honor, the Lord Wavertree Cup is offered in English FA football (By way of the Liverpool County Premier League).