Record ID:
35587656 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 93033953
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18411014
  • Hobart (Tas.)
Death:
  • 18991104
  • Hobart (Tas.)
Associated with:
  • Tasmania
Fields of activity:
  • Tasmania--Social conditions Tasmania--History
Occupations:
  • Lawyers Historians
Notes:
  • His Early Tasmania, 1989: t.p. (James Backhouse Walker, F.R.G.S., member of the council of the Royal Society of Tasmania and vice-chancellor of the Tasmanian Univ.)
  • LC data base, 04-13-93 (hdg.: Walker, James Backhouse, 1841-1899)
  • Wikiepdia 12 May 2019 (James Backhouse Walker (14 October 1841 – 4 November 1899) was an Australian solicitor and historian. He was born in Hobart and educated at the High School, Hobart, and the Quaker Bootham School, York, England. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Tasmania in 1876. He was active in social improvement and in 1890 was appointed to the first council of the University of Tasmania. We was a member and councillor of the Royal Society of Tasmania, and wrote several historical papers on Tasmanian history.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Backhouse_Walker
Local system number:
  • 000000591122
  • abv00487809
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX33137
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng DLC AIAS rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc