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I notice that you have moved Baldwin Wake Walker to Baldwin Wake-Walker. Do you have any evidence that his correct name was Baldwin Wake-Walker?-- Toddy1 ( talk) 17:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
It seems reasonably clear that the subject of this article was born with the surname "Walker" (his father was plain John Walker), that by the time he received a peerage, he preferred the double surname "Wake Walker", and that his descendants adopted the surname Wake-Walker (e.g. Frederic Wake-Walker) to avoid confusion as explained above. So how should he be referred to in the article? Different historians have taken different views on the matter:
Beeler quotes a letter from Disraeli to Lord Derby: “The Admiralty is governed by Sir B Walker who has neither talents, nor science—& as I believe—nor honour” showing that he was plain "Walker" as late as 1858. Gdr 16:06, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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I notice that you have moved Baldwin Wake Walker to Baldwin Wake-Walker. Do you have any evidence that his correct name was Baldwin Wake-Walker?-- Toddy1 ( talk) 17:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
It seems reasonably clear that the subject of this article was born with the surname "Walker" (his father was plain John Walker), that by the time he received a peerage, he preferred the double surname "Wake Walker", and that his descendants adopted the surname Wake-Walker (e.g. Frederic Wake-Walker) to avoid confusion as explained above. So how should he be referred to in the article? Different historians have taken different views on the matter:
Beeler quotes a letter from Disraeli to Lord Derby: “The Admiralty is governed by Sir B Walker who has neither talents, nor science—& as I believe—nor honour” showing that he was plain "Walker" as late as 1858. Gdr 16:06, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
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