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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Richard Walton

Mr. Richard Walton was born in 1845, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, where his father was a boot manufacturer. He learned his trade with his father, with whom he worked for many years, and after manufacturing on his own account in Conway, North Wales, and Wigan, Lancashire, for fifteen years, came to New Zealand in 1884. In 1869 Mr. Walton married Miss Alice Rebecca Waring, of Chorley, Lancashire, and has four sons, three of whom assist in the factory, and the other teaches under the Board of Education. Mr. Walton is the organist page 383
Mr. R. Walton.

Mr. R. Walton.

and choirmaster at St. James's Presbyterian Church, the largest in Auckland, and is also a member of the Orchestral Union. Two of his sons are also very musical; the eldest, Mr. Edgar Walton, being a prominent bass singer, and Mr. Robert H. Walton, the youngest, one of Auckland's leading violinists. The last-named is now (1901) a medical student at Edinburgh University.