Eric Sherbrooke Walker

Major Eric George Sherbrooke Walker, MC was hotelier and founder of the Outspan Hotel and Treetops Hotel in Kenya, as well as a decorated military officer. He is remembered as the host of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip when they visited Treetops in 1952, shortly before receiving news of the death of King George VI and Elizabeths accession to the throne.

The son of Reverend George Sherbrooke Walker and his wife, Jessie Elizabeth Carter, Eric Walker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham in Warwickshire onJuly 1887, and brought up in March, Cambridgeshire where his father was rector of St Wendredas church. He was educated at Oakham School and King Edwards, Edgbaston and then read Theology at The Queens College, Oxford.

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