David Maxwell Walker
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David Maxwell Walker CBE QC FBA FRSE (9 April 1920[1] – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.[2]
Walker was educated at the High School of Glasgow,[3] at the time the city's publicly funded grammar school, where he was Mackindlay Prizeman in Classics.[3] He was the son of a bank agent who died when Walker was 14.[4]
Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the Army at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. He began as a non-commissioned officer in the Cameronians, was seconded to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1941, and then served with the Indian Armed Forces in India in 1942, in the southwest Asia from 1942 to 1943, and in Italy from 1943 to 1946, rising to the rank of captain.[3]
He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating MA in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year.[3] Whilst practising at the Bar he undertook postgraduate study as Faulds Fellow in Law at the University of Glasgow from 1949 to 1952 and was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on equity in Scots law,[5] graduating in 1952.[3][4]
