Ada Hill Walker

Ada Hill Walker (1879-10 November 1955) was a British scientific illustrator, artist and flower painter based in St Andrews in Scotland who provided illustrations for the scientific publications of William M'Intosh (1838-1931). She often signed her work as A.H.W., A.H. Walker and Ada H. Walker.

Ada Hill Walker
Born1879
Died(1955-11-10)10 November 1955
St Andrews
NationalityBritish
Known forscientific illustrator
Illustration of Polychaetes (marine worms) illustrated by Ada Hill Walker in A Monograph of the British Marine Annelids by William M'Intosh

Life

The daughter of Jessie (née Hill) and James Walker, Ada Hill Walker was an art teacher in St Andrews who with R. Smeaton Douglas co-authored A System of Brush Drawing and Design for Public Elementary Schools, a book on brush-drawing published in 1902 and for which Walker provided 15 illustrative plates. She was the younger sister of architect William Hill Walker (1875- c1955).[1][2] In the 1930s she was commissioned to paint murals in the New Picture House in her native St Andrews.[3]

Ada Hill Walker lived in St Andrews in Scotland all her life and died there in 1955.[4]

References
  1. William Hill Walker and Ada Hill Walker in the 1901 Scotland Census - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  2. William Hill Walker - Dictionary of Scottish Architects
  3. Helen Cook, St Andrews History Tour, Amberley Publishing (2017) - Google Books
  4. Ada Hill Walker in the England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966, 1973-1995 - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
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