Wednesday 1st May 2002
Rob Walker died this week, at the age of 84. Doug Nye, with Sir Stirling Moss, bids farewell to one of the greatest motor racing titans, in Atlas F1, The Journal Of Formula One Motorsport, Volume 8, Issue 18:
. . . . . . Robert Ramsay Campbell Walker was born on August 14th 1917. His father Campbell, orphaned as a child and raised in Australia by his maternal grandparents, was heir to the Johnny Walker whisky fortunes. Rob’s mother, née Mary Marshal Ramsay, came from a family with business interests in tea and rubber trading. Cam Walker died in 1921, aged just 32. Rob’s mother subsequently married the much older Sir Francis Eden Lacey, long-time secretary of the MCC, the world’s premier cricket club, and Rob and his three-years older brother John grew up on the extensive Sutton Veny estate near Warminster in Wiltshire, which his stepfather and mother had bought as their new home.
The house at Sutton Veny extended to over one hundred rooms. There, Rob was taught initially by a governess, before being despatched to the boarding school at Sherborne. . . . . . .
To read the full tribute, click on: http://www.atlasf1.com/2002/spn/nye.html