David Scott Walker (1861-1939) was a Canadian elected to The Lambs in 1906 as Non-Resident Member.
He was born January 31, 1861, in Montreal to hardware merchant James and Anne Scott Walker, Scotch immigrants, and was the youngest of six.
As a young man he dabbled in the theatrical business, and worked for the J. B. Sparrow Amusement Company. Walker rubbed shoulders with major stars of the era, including Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
He was a major shareholder of His Majesty’s Theatre (1898), the Princess Theatre, and the Théâtre Français (1883) in Montreal. He supported the visits to Canada of many important English theatrical companies. He retired from entertainment around 1919 and was the president of the Raymond Concrete Pile Company and his family’s James Walker Hardware Company.
Following World War I, Walker began spending his holidays in Cannes, vacationing on the Côte d’Azur. For two decades he was a regular visitor to the Mediterranean Sea.
On March 21, 1939, he married a fellow Cannes guest, the Ontario-born Emma Tipling Sisman, 61, the widow of Andrew C. Sisman, a Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, builder, and mother of three grown children. Walker was seriously ill at the time, so only a civil ceremony in Cannes’ city hall could be completed. The witnesses were Prince Philip of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and his second wife, Princess Odette Labori. The newlyweds announced a honeymoon in England, but Walker immediately was admitted to a local hospital.
Only two weeks after his wedding, on April 1, 1939, doctors could not save Walker. He died at 78. He is interred in the family plot in the Cimetière Mont-Royal, Outremont, Montreal.
—Researched by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, Shepherd of The Lambs.