Alan Walker (buried 1934)

Alan Lachlan, born in Bengal, died at 19 rue Oudinot, Paris, but he was described as being of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Probate was given to his sons Patrick and Robin. His ashes were interred in Heene Cemetery in 1934. In 1905 he married Dora Marguerite Chrestien in Worthing. Dora was born in Marseilles in about 1885, and in 1891 was living in Rowlands Road, with her mother Eliza and sister Marie. Her father Fernand, was in India at the time. In 1907 Alan was a passenger (Gentleman) aboard the ship Marmora bound for Bombay. He. had a temporary commission as a Captain in 1918 and as Lieutenant Colonel in 1921 and was in the Punjab Civil Service from 1909 to 1919 as a Land Settlement Officer from 1913, and later a Judge in Lahore There are records of Dora sailing to Bombay in 1915 on the ship Caledonia, in 1920, with Colonel Alan, on the ship Kaiser I Hind and in 1921 on the ship China. In 1924 Alan and Dora sailed from London to Bombay, giving their address as the Cavendish Hotel, Worthing. He was proficient in Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Turkish. In the face of assassination threats at a time of rebellion against the British rule, he came back to England in 1932. His address at the time was St James' Square, London SW1. In 1933 as a Judge, he sailed between London and Cape Town. His son, Baron Patrick Chrestien Gordon Walker was born in Worthing in 1907. He became an MP, a prominent Labour Politician and a Cabinet Minister.