Edward Forestier-Walker

Forestier-Walker was commissioned in 1827.^[4] He commanded the Scots Fusilier Guards at the Battle of Balaclava in October 1854, at the Battle of Inkerman in November 1854 and at the Siege of Sebastopol in Winter 1854 during the Crimean War.^[5] He became Commander-in-Chief, Scotland in 1862.^[6]

He was also colonel of the 50th Regiment of Foot from 1871 to 1881, when they became part of the new Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment),^[7] after which he was briefly Colonel of the first battalion of the latter before his death later that year.^[8]

On 20 July 1843, Forestier-Walker married Lady Jane Ogilvy-Grant, daughter of Colonel Francis Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield. They had four sons:^[1][3]

• General Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker (1844–1910), a senior military officer who was Governor of Gibraltar
• Francis Lewis George Forestier Walker (2 January 1847 – February 1854), died in childhood
• Douglas Henry Walter Forestier Walker (May–July 1849), died in childhood
• Colonel Montagu Charles Brudenell Forestier-Walker (1853–1902), killed in a train accident while serving as Assistant Adjutant-general to the British Force in Egypt^[9]

Lady Jane died in 1861. In 1862, he married secondly to Lady Juliana Caroline Frances Knox, daughter of Thomas Knox, 2nd Earl of Ranfurly.^[10][2] They had a daughter, who died as an infant:

• Mary Juliana Forestier Walker (born and died 1863)^[11]

He died at the Manor House in Bushey, Hertfordshire, in 1881.^[2]