John Walker (cricketer, born 1826)

John Walker was an English cricketer.
Walker was born in Palmers Green, the eldest of seven cricket playing brothers and four sisters - known historically as The Walkers of Southgate. He was educated in Stanmore and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He played as a right-handed batsman and an underarm right-arm slow bowler for Cambridge University, Marylebone Cricket Club, a Middlesex XI and Middlesex County Cricket Club.
His family owned a large estate at Arnos Grove and he founded the John Walker Cricket Ground, in Waterfall Road, Southgate. It is run today by the Walker Trust.
William Buttress, a fellow cricketer, was financially supported by Walker at certain times.
Walker died at Arnos Grove in 1885, aged 58.