Eric A. Walker (historian)

Eric Anderson Walker (6 September 1886 – 23 February 1976) was an English historian who served as King George V Professor of History at the University of Cape Town and Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History at the University of Cambridge.[1] He was a pioneer in writing the history of South Africa and later an important historian of the British Empire, though by the end of his life his work was seen as dated and Eurocentric.[1]

  1. ^ a b Walker, Eric Andersonby Christopher Saunders, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2014.