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Annie Purcell Walker, Lady Walker (1871–1950)], chemist, elder daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Sedgwick of Godalming. She was born in Cork on 4 December 1871 and educated at Girton College, Cambridge, where she gained second-class honours in the science tripos in 1893. She then joined Norman Collie as a research student at University College, London, where she met her husband. She published three papers on organic chemistry, but abandoned research after 1905. There was one son, Frederick, who became a geologist. Walker died at 5 Wester Coates Road, Edinburgh, on 6 May 1935; his wife died in the sa--Mabranche18 (talk) 12:42, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Anne "Annie" Walker (née Beaumont) was landlady of the Rovers Return Inn from 1937 to 1984. A proud member of the Beaumont family of Clitheroe, Lancashire, Annie moved to Weatherfield to find work and married Jack Walker in 1937. They immediately took over the tenancy of the Rovers and raised their children Billy and Joan there. When Jack died in 1970, Annie took over as licensee. As landlady, Annie carried herself with an almost regal dignity acquired through many years of tending to the working classes. Resigned to a life at the Rovers, she concentrated on making a success of it while improving her social standing, although her pretensions more often than not led to despair at the behaviour and general demeanour of the less refined members of her clientele. It nearly always fell to Jack to offer an olive branch to both staff and customers who had been offended by Annie. After Jack's death, Annie found it increasingly difficult to cope with her responsibilities at the Rovers. She remained in charge thanks mostly to having friends within senior management of the brewery, but in 1984 she decided she'd had enough and went to live with Joan in Derby.