Thomas Eades Walker
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|office = Member of Parliament
for East Worcestershire
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|term_start = 16 February 1874
|term_end = 14 April 1880
|predecessor = Richard Amphlett
Charles Lyttelton
|alongside = Henry Allsopp
|successor = William Henry Gladstone
George Hastings
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|birth_date = 24 February 1843
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|death_date = 13 January 1899
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Thomas Eades Walker (24 February 1843 – 13 January 1899){{Rayment-hc|w|5|date=January 2018}}Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser, 21 January 1899, p.8 column F was a British Conservative politician.
Walker first stood for election in Wednesbury in 1868, but was unsuccessful. He was then elected MP for East Worcestershire in 1874 but did not stand for re-election at the next election in 1880.{{cite book|editor1-last=Walker|editor1-first=B.M.|title=Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922|date=1978|publisher=Royal Irish Academy|location=Dublin|isbn=978-0901714121}}
He was born John Thomas Eades Walker - he used only the second and third of his Christian names - at Wednesbury where his father, a self-made man, built up a very large business manufacturing axles for railway rolling stock. Unfortunately both father and son lived in considerable style far beyond their incomes. Popularly known as 'Tapioca Tom', Thomas Eades Walker was well known for a few years on the Turf and owned a winner of the 1000 Guineas Stakes.Worcestershire Chronicle, 4 February 1899, p.8, column D Effectively hopelessly insolvent for many years he was bankrupted in 1892.Berrow's Worcester Journal, 3 December 1892, p.6, column F He died in London in very reduced circumstances.
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Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:People from Wednesbury
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