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Anna Maria Walker
Anna Maria Walker (née Patton) (c. 1778–1852) and her husband Colonel George Warren Walker (1778–1843) were Scottish botanists in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who made extensive collections of plants between 1830 and 1838. Several species of ferns and orchids were named after them by Sir William Jackson Hooker with whom they corresponded. They also corresponded with and collaborated with other botanists in the region such as Robert Wight. Anna Maria was also an excellent botanical artist who illustrated many species of orchids.〔Noltie, H.J. (2013). The Botanical Collections of Colonel and Mrs Walker: Ceylon, 1830 – 1838. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.〕 Plant species named after them include ''Vanilla walkeriae'', ''Liparis walkeriae'' and ''Thrixspermum walkeri''.
== Biographies ==
Anna Maria Patton was probably born in 1778 at Kinaldy, Fife, in Scotland. She was the third daughter (of ten) of the 17 children of Colonel Robert Patton and Constantia Adriana Sally Mapletoft. Patton had been Military Secretary to three Governors-General of India, the last being Warren Hastings, and made enough money to buy Kinaldy, returning to family roots – his father Philip Patton was a friend of Adam Smith,〔Crimmin, P.K. (2004). Patton, Philip (1739–1815) (notes on his brothers Charles and Robert ), in H.C.G. Matthew & B. Harrison (eds) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 43: 123–5. OUP.〕 having been Collector of Customs at Kirkcaldy. In 1797 the Pattons moved to Castle Street, Edinburgh, where they entered literary society and Anna attended the sermons of Rev. Sydney Smith. His finances depleted, Kinaldy was let out and Colonel Patton was appointed Governor of the south Atlantic island of St Helena in 1801;〔Gosse, P. (1938). St Helena 1502–1938. London: Cassell & Co. (by Anthony Nelson, 1990 ).〕 Anna Maria and her sisters Sarah and Jessy, accompanied him as housekeepers. There the sisters met distinguished passers-by including Lord Valentia and his artist Henry Salt;〔Valentia, George, Viscount (1809). Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. Vol 1 (3 ). London: W. Miller.〕 her father appointed William John Burchell as the island's botanist – so Anna Maria may well have got some early botanical and artistic training in St Helena. Her sister Sarah married an army officer who was later to be Sir Henry Torrens while another sister Jessy married John Paterson son of George Paterson, a Madras Nabob who owned Castle Huntly, near Dundee. Hoping to follow their example Anna Maria went to India where she married Captain Walker, and in 1819 they moved to Ceylon. In 1820 Anna Maria climbed Adam's Peak, supposedly the first white woman to do so.〔
George Warren Walker,〔Walker, G.W. () (1902). Some Account of Philip Patton, Merchant and Bailie of Anstruther, and his Descendants. Privately published ‘for the information of relatives’; printed by Butcher, Weymouth.〕 was born on 25 March 1778, the sixth son of the Rev. Benjamin Walker, Vicar of Northallerton, Yorkshire and Isabella (née Warren). He entered the British Army in 1799 and was commissioned Lieutenant in the 8th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (the King's Royal Irish) in 1801 and went with them to India the following year. He saw active service under General Lake in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, and under Major-General Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie in the Anglo-Gurkha War. On 20 July 1809 he married Anna Maria Patton at Chunar in present day Uttar Pradesh. Promoted Lt. Colonel in 1818, the following year he was appointed Deputy Adjutant General of Ceylon; the Walkers moved there and remained there (apart from a furlough in Britain 1826–9) until October 1838. Walker was then appointed to command the 21st Regiment of North British Fusiliers, which he took over in Madras and accompanied to Bengal. In 1840 he was appointed Brigadier in command of the Meerut Station (by which time he held the rank of Major General on the East Indies establishment), until 1843 when the 21st were transferred to the Madras Presidency. While awaiting a new command he died on 4 December 1843, at St Thomas Mount, Madras, where he was buried. His widow erected a mural tablet in Northallerton church.
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